HomeGrown and Microsoft working together?

[PornoDoggy]

Sorry if I am raining on your parade, but I am not being a pessimist here. Rather, you seem to want someone to blow happy smoke up your ass. I'm speaking from personal experience.

I think statements like "great benefits in Microsoft helping IMPA" are optomistic at this time. I doubt that Acacia is even a bright blip on their "threat radar" right now. If you've got a hostile faction of the Justice Department and a whole bunch of state Attorneys-General on your neck, the pipsqueaks from Acacia don't represent much of a threat. I have no doubt that they are watching it - but based on the legal strategy that Acacia is taking, I think calling them worried is overstating it.

The firm I worked for represented dozens of clients in the Fortune 100, often on like lawsuits - but none of them were working together. At one point we were defending more than ten class action suits against three major telecommunications clients on almost identical grounds - and not only were they not working together, there were cases within the firm I worked for that I could not be involved with because of knowledge of another case involving another client. In one case they even asked the client for specific permission to allow me to work on a like lawsuit, and they were turned down due to the types of information I had access to and the level of contact with the client I would have.

think Acacias move to go after the little guy was their mistake. By going after us... a case has been opened and other bigger corporations can contribute to their dimise with spending little money.

To date I see no evidence that this has happened; it would be logical, but there is the whole matter of "helping pornographers" that may delay that.

I think that the reasons for Acacia's strategy in this matter may have as much to do with balance sheets as legal policy. By going after smaller entities, and in fact getting some of them to fold in the face of the costs of patent litigation, they hope to see revenue from the patents that I guarantee you they wouldn't see if they took on somebody bigger.