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Originally posted by FightThisPatent
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Berman did a good job in making Acacia sound like they were the victim in all of this of people stealing their property.
Many inaccuracies in his story.
The one that stands out the most is how he said they have their engineers research every potential licensee to fully understand through public means if they are infringing.
Sounds good on paper, but in reality, there were many hahahahahahahahaable cases of people receiving the "infringement letter", and NEVER HAD AUDIO OR VIDEO ON THEIR WEBSITE.
Acacia seems to have gotten ahold of a webmaster list and used it to blanket out mass email (spam).
No research or verification was done, especially when some of these receipients called in to say why they were infringing, and they didn't even have what website that had the "infringement" in their database.
Another time, an attorney called in onbehalf of someone that had received a letter and talked to Berman directly. Berman asked for the person's name, and the attorney gave it to him and he looked them up in the database.
He then asked what their website was, and the attorney responded, you're supposed to be able to tell me that.
"How is my client infringing?" the lawyer said. Berman could not answer and was blaming that the database had a problem or something. Seems like there are alot of "database" problems.
The turn out to the panel was pathetic, maybe about 20 or so at the midpoint and down to like 10 at the end.
People are not taking Acacia seriously, which is a bad thing, not because the patent has teeth, but because the baby is teething on businesses using very questionable "marketing" attempts.
Fight the Spam!
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Acacia did well to hire Berman as their mouthpiece.
He has a "way with words" as they say.
To the unsophisticated he may sound like the voice of god.
But if you've been around attorneys you can spot a bullshitter a mile away.
"acacia had it's engineers evaluate everyone we contacted"
just one of a hundred bullshit lines.
acacia was bulk mailing people who didn't even own a website.
"we have a hundred something licensees"
Berman forgot to mention that many of these licensees paid little or nothing to be used as acacia talking points.
Berman also forgot to mention that this entire DMT patent issue is CURRENTLY in court. THE VALIDITY OF THE "PATENT" HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED. At this point acacia doesn't have dick.
i did not hear anyone in the room ask Berman about the validity of the V-chip.
Acacia is going nowhere, the patent will be invalidated, and Berman is just another guy who went to law school to become a blood sucker. Guys like him are the reason people hate attorneys. This guy does not better society. He is an opportunist who lies in wait. A scumbag if ever there was one.
sorry, but my bullshit indicator just went off the scale when i heard Berman give his pitch---and no one in that audience had any balls.