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If you guys look a little deeper into the site that was posted in the first message in this thread, you'll realize that this is old news. PanIP was the first Acacia, and Acacia is simply copying off of what they did to make as much money as possible until people stop acting like puppets and fight back.

If you read the UPDATE in the link from the main page (which I've posted below), you will find the following:

First, through the support of the public and the help of a private prior art search firm, we have found substantial evidence undermining PanIP's patents. In May we used this evidence to file requests with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO") to reexamine and invalidate both of them. At the same time we moved to stay PanIP's lawsuits, and in June the federal court in San Diego issued an order staying the cases to allow our reexamination requests to be considered. In July, we received notice that the PTO has accepted our request for reexamination and agrees that we have raised "a substantial new question of patentability" as to the claims of the first of PanIP's patents. Thus, this patent will now be reexamined in its entirety and we are confident that it will be invalidated. We anticipate a similar finding with respect to the second PanIP patent shortly.

Second, we have obtained an award of attorney's fees against PanIP for approximately $19,000.00 related to the defense of PanIP's unsupported lawsuit alleging defamation and trademark infringement against the PanIP Group Defense Fund, as well as naming my wife and me personally along with our business.

Third, we have successfully stopped PanIP's strategy of suing small and medium sized businesses from around the country in San Diego in order to coerce a licensing fee from those defendants. They have not sued one other business since we started our fight.

Link to the Update Message

Maybe this should be yet ANOTHER wake up call that patents with broad definitions are bullshit. As the world moves forward, ideas from the past don't stand up to the tests of time. Just as a patent on teleportation technology will not make a difference 50 years from now, these patents should not mean dick today. And they don't... unless everyone cowards in a corner and gives in.

There's my :2 cents:.

"We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us." --Magnolia