acacia and EU
 

If I'm right Acacia can't touch any company incorporated in EU and having hosting overthere ... am I right ?

wrong

The European Patent Office has granted patents which provide coverage until 2012 in the following 14 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Stange notion. Where do people get all these odd ideas from that xyz will somehow make them immune? The ONLY way to be 100% safe is to fight the crap in court and show it to be the BS it is or pay them the extortion money.

/me mumbles about heads, sand and something about burrying.

is any company actually fighting them though?

small webmasters can't afford to go to court with a company that will spend millions of $ on lawyers to guarentee the only way it has of making money.

acacia will spend millions on it's legal fight, because there is so much to gain from winning. who can afford to fight them?

At this stage court isn't involved for most people especially outside of the US. A lot depends on the homegrown case.

However as I said above you either gotta fight it or pay. There is no get out clause for the majority of people whatever country they are in.

Of course the smaller people can't afford court which is exactly what Acacia was counting on. The claims and patents may not be legal or valid but until somebody can afford to prove otherwise the law is on their side however fucked up that may be. The fact that people are fighting and using professionals in this field must have both shocked and scared Acacia.

I somehow have to doubt they have a patent in Germany.

In Germany you can only patent a item, an invention involving that new item. Processes are excluded from being able to get a patent.

I know that because I was trying to get a patent on a mainstream project of mine and I cannot protect it at all.

Germany

Patent: DE69230250T2

Translation of European Patent No. EP 0 566 662

Issued on July 13, 2000