| Feb 18 2003 Business Wire Acacia Research to Release Fourth Quarter Financial Results and Host Conference Call | |||||||||
| A conference call is scheduled for Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern). The call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at Acacia's website. I wonder if CCBN is licensed by Acacia? |
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| Feb 14 2003 Business Wire Acacia Announces DMT Licenses and Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits | |||||||||
| Acacia announced today that it has initiated patent infringement litigation in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against 39 Adult Entertainment companies. All of the defendants were previously notified of their infringing activity. |
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| Feb 6 2003 CNET Patent scare hits streaming industry | |||||||||
| This week's letter to RadioIO is just a small part of an expanding licensing campaign by Acacia, which confidently says it holds sweeping patents likely to cover the activities of a huge swath of Internet multimedia companies, ranging from Microsoft to America Online. | |||||||||
| Undated Extreme Tech Porn Kings Aflame Over Multimedia Patents | |||||||||
| "We're not willing to put anyone out of business; we're not looking to change anyone's behavior, if people feel that this is something they need to challenge in court, fine. But if they challenge this in court, 75 percent of the people will likely spend more in court fees than they'll spend in royalties to us." | |||||||||
| Feb 6 2003 RAIN Tech Firm Says It Owns Patents To Net Radio Tech, Looks To Collect | |||||||||
| Firms in Internet radio and other industries that make use of audio or video delivery over the Internet may soon need to secure new licenses for that technology. Newport Beach, CA-based Acacia Media Technologies says it owns patents on several popular systems used in Net radio and other fields, and is aiming to enter license agreements in which webcasters would pay to use their Digital Media Transmission, or "DMT" technology. | |||||||||
| Dec 25 2002 O'Reilly Network Major patent system abuse | |||||||||
| If the DOJ and/or FTC don't sue Acacia Research Corporationand request the supreme court to void the five patents, because of anti-trust and competition, Acacia Research Corporation *will* become the second or third most monopolistic and rich. | |||||||||
| Dec 19 2002 SiliconInvestor Company wants its pound of flesh | |||||||||
| "If you have a Web site, and you have video on your Web site, and it's digitized and stored on your server, in most cases, yes, we feel that process is covered by our patents." | |||||||||