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Originally posted by charly
I'm sat in the Czech Republic and do not have to give a penny, in fact a win by Acacia would have been financially beneficial for us. We could have rolled back to here and operated from here. We could have opened paysites and delivered videos without having to worry about them. There patent is not valid here.
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Unfortunately, I think you're wrong about being safe because you're located in Europe. The European Patent Office has granted Acacia's patent here as well. The number of the European patent is EP0566662. See
http://www.ffii.se/acacia/index_eng.html for more details.
FFII, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, is the leading European organization fighting software patents. The issue of software patents is currently under intense discussion among legislators in Brussels. Right now the outcome pretty much hangs in the balance, so it's possible that we'll be successful in out fight to ban software patent altogether here in Europe. That would make Acacia's patent worthless here.
But it could go the other way as well, so any constructive help with the political lobbying would be much appreciated. The issue will (probably) be decided in the European Parliament this autumn, so it is right now that the window of opportunity is open.