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Originally posted by tony404
This is what I dont understand, someone please explain to me.
Lets go on the theory their patent is valid, how come no one is going into court saying we dont use their technology Microsoft, real media and Apple do. It would be like your the guy with patent for digital camera technology and instead of going after Sony or Nikkon you go after Photographers it would be thrown out. The guy with the patent for the delayed wiper went after car companies not the people who drive the cars. I cant believe smarter men havent gone with this arguement.
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Assuming the DMT patent is valid.... they don't have any technology or product, it's merely an idea of using different pieces of technology in order to produce a desired outcome.
M$, Apple, Real make pieces of the process..... it's the webmaster that combines ALL of the pieces.. content being the last piece.
Don't forget that an Apache web server is also a piece of software that is part of the puzzle for delivering digital content.
All three of these companies also combine content with technology, so they should be targeted as well.
So your analogy won't apply, because there is nothing tangible here.. it's just an idea... and anyone who combines technology with content is essentially following in the steps of the "invention".
Process patents and Business Method Patents are wierd variants of a patent that are hard to fathom sometimes when we think a patent as a tangible object.
But there are many, many patents based on ideas that are not products, and this is the way the patent system works.
What Acacia has done is to illuminate the fact, what mainstream has known for decades, that you can get ideas patented, don't have to make a product, and try to get people to pay for licenses.
Fight the Apples and Oranges!