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Originally posted by Frank@Nov 17 2003, 06:50 AM
But if you validly got awarded a patent trhen why not make some money from it? Even if it's something as obnoxious as Amazon's 1 click purchase system. So far it appears to be standing for them - and if nobody else defeats their claim? Well, they could license it (although I bhelieve that has not happened yet).
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I agree with you 100%.
FightThePatent.com and the proposed Fight the Patent Foundation is not anti-patent, just anti bad patents.
If Yurt (the inventor of the patent that Acacia purchased) actually invented something, and there was no prior art, and a court system validated the claims, then yes, the patent holder has every right to benefit from their Intellectual Property.
If this were the case with Acacia DMT patent, then Acacia would not be an issue.. there are thousands of patents that get licensed each year, and are factored as a COGS for a product.
It's such a joke for Acacia to reference the patent as being "technology". Technology involves software and hardware, created by people. There is no technology in the patent. Inventions do not have to be tangible objects, they could be processes like vulcanization.
But given my experiences and research, the patent claims are broadly interpreted from the patent, and the actual patent itself does not claim ownership to such ideas as downloading audio/video from a web server as evident by prior art.
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