At this point, Rob Berman of Acacia is claiming that they possess the patent to all known methods of delivering audio and video on the internet... streaming, downloading, real, windows media, zips, whatever. I don't know if that is a sign of his desperation to convince people to license or he has developed a severe God Complex and really believes that Acacia's patent covers everything under the sun.
The language they use is very confusing and that is the way they like it. We have to go to court to prove why we are not infringing and why their patents are invalid. The trial date has not been set, and the court has postponed the whole affair from really getting under way a couple of times.
That is not bad news, nor is it a matter of the Court not being sympathetic to what is happening here. My guess is the problem is that these types of over-reaching, non-applicable, abuses of the patent process have slowed everything for everybody by burdening the Court. I am not an attorney though so what do I know?
We are certainly looking forward to our day in court though.
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10-13-2003
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