Well, well, someone has finally brought up the word "lobbying". That I saw as a good sign.
Then I saw this:
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A 501 ©(3) is absolutely prohibited from making politicalcontributions or expenditures to a candidate or PAC, including in-kind contributions.
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I think the number one thing to stop Acacia and all the other patent whores is lobbying. The US Patent Office has pretty much spent the last 10 years or so, with no idea whatsoever of anything remotely technical, giving rights away to everything from video streaming, to "the click", to the exit console and anything else!
In short, their ignorance has opened a legal and economic Pandora's Box of nightmares upon the Internet, with about twenty years of lawsuits with trillions of dollars that will be wasted.
What I think is required is a Patent Reform Act, one that is retroactive and little or no grandfather clauses. Something that will have an oversight committee re-review and have the authority to overturn all technological patents issued since 1990. That is the only way and the most effective way to stop all of this BS. A law needs to be passed to correct the wrongs of the moronic bureaucrats, before people are put out of business or give in to legal extortion or spend money on court case after court case.
Alas, it seems lobbying isn't among the priorities here. In fact, it seems it's been decided to be ignored. I wish it was otherwise. While I understand the tax write-off factor, to continually throughout the years never had any lobbying, any DC influence, any PAC contributions has been the greatest error this industry has made ... and apparently continues to make.