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You are all arguing about the validity of the patent and I'm afraid you miss the point. Whether the patent is valid or not is totally irrelevant. Let me explain.
Acacia hold a patent that can be linked rightly or wrongly to companies.
They can tell those companies "PAY THE LICENSE OR WE WILL TAKE YOU TO COURT"
A patent court case can cost $300K so most will license rather than face that expense. With the added benefit of forcing some of your competitors out of business.
Those that choose to fight not only have to pay, they have to spend time organizing the fight.
No license fee is refundable, it might even be those who signed will continue paying.
Acacia have made a nice profit on a patent that in my opinion is not valid.
And the way it's going that is the story, whether the DMT patent holds water is totally irrelevant. The point is WILL ACACIA MAKE A PROFIT FROM THIS?
So what can we do?
Come together, show any company that signed your back. Stop buying content from them, sending them traffic, using their banner as your signature, stop taking their advertising, stop selling them content.
Contribute to a fund to pay any and all court costs of the defendants, even if it's only $10 a month. Send traffic to those who do fight, buy their content. Show you support.
And this is the problem, how many have done what I suggested and how many have just thought "Let someone else do it for me, I can't afford it"
Words on a chat board are helpful, but do nothing to stop it.
Acacia WON the V-Chip case.
Any business deal which I come out better off, is not a loss.
Tell me if they have lost money so far, tell me if we have sent a warning to the other companies with patent waiting to see the outcome of this case.
It's not about whether the patent is valid, it's about whether you can make a living out of it.
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