More Acacia Prior art from 1989
 

Posted on the usenet group comp.os.research on August 16, 1989

Video network

It's a research project at UC Berkely, so I'm sure there are tech reports available. Contact Berkley for copies of the reports would give more information, I'm sure.

Nice find. :thumbsup

I'd like to know what company Acacia supposedly hired to do the prior art search -- so if I ever need to pay someone to find something for me I won't use the same company.

I'm sure you've already forwarded the link to FightThisPatent.com and IMPAI?

Cheers,
Matt

good work. I hope that someone at one of the organizations working against Acacia sees this information and that is valuable.

Since a lot of this rests on discovery and discovery costs a fucking grip of money, I'm willing to donate my time in helping find prior works or art and more to help the cause.

Just wonder if this would help. I'm sure other people would do the same.

BTW, anyone else want to do prior art research on this or other patents, google groups is a treaseure. Just go to http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en and pick the dates you want to search between.

I have wondered the same thing..... especially who the patent attorney was that did the research for Hustler/Vivid.

Do they not know how to use google?

Amazing...

(i have this UC Berkely lead..part of the problem is the searches in Google are easy and great, but finding the actual person or the actual document that doesn't exist in digital form, is the harder part of the effort).

I will now create a page on my website to list all prior art finds, especially the one that Squirt posted. Up until yesterday, the sentiment was to not reveal prior art finds... after talking to another patent attorney and seeing the excitement in people's post about watching that video, had led me to the conclusion that posting of prior art is a good thing.

Working on the page now.. it will be called Squirt.html in honor of Squirt.


Fight The Patent!

Awesome VideoJ !!!

Let's keep up our searches and pile up the prior art!!!

The more the better....

Remember.. Acacia is not the only patent holder out there ready to go after us.. many are waiting in the wings Ideaflood.com for example.

Keep up the good work !!

Brandon, Google is a wonderful thing, I found David Anderson. You have email on the details.

I missed this post ...
looks like I have some reading to do.

grrrrr ..

New area to search... i haven't updated my web page yet:

Articles in popular magazines like Scientific American, computer mags, etc.,. that were pubished before 1990, that talk about the future coming soon.. watching videos on demand, digital music to be downloaded from computers, convergence of entertainment and computers, etc.

These articles are not really prior art, but serve a purpose of showing to the court that there was a spirit of innovation going on before 1990 that was describing all the stuff that Acacia's patent describes..along with solid prior art audio or video, this is what nails the coffin in.

So, search out for articles that talk about this, and post it or email it to me.

Fight the Patent!

Anyone got any word from any attorneys about all this shit being found?

:glugglug