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Originally posted by rebel23
another quote from the article:
"The thing that's exciting to me is that the (US)PTO sort of made the ruling on the basis of how much interest there is in this issue on the Internet," said Dale Dougherty, a vice president of online publishing and research at Sebastapol, Calif.-based publisher O'Reilly & Associates, who posted news of the USPTO's decision on the O'Reilly Web site. "And it seems that they felt they had to respond to it."
does this whole Acacia episode not constitute significant interest on the internet, worthy of a quick re-examination of their patent?
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What you are missing is that the target of the Eolas patent is the sacred cow of the Western World --- Microsoft. If the adult industry has 1/100th of the lobbying power in Washington that MSFT does, we'd have the USPTO all over Acacia as well.
Until Acacia goes after Microsoft, Apple, and AOL, I wouldn't count on much help from the same dick faces that approved the patent in the first place.
