NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Formalizing a move they first began in December, Acacia Research Corp. has filed in federal court to create a single class of defendants to cover all adult Internet companies it claims infringing its Digital Media Transmission group of streaming media patents.
Adult Check parent Cybernet Ventures has been named the class representative, with Python Video parent Global Media possibly being dropped as the co-class representative, since reports indicate the latter was not mentioned in that regard in this week's filing.
Goldberg said the class action filing made it "very apparent that Acacia is moving away from their boisterous stance against the online industry, and are focusing now on cable." Earlier this week, Acacia announced its technologies group produced $599,000 in revenues in the first quarter of the year, and the company focused on DMT licensings involving mainstream streaming media users like CinemaNow, Disney, General Dynamics, LodgeNet, and Virgin Radio, among others.
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