The bottom line in all this seems pretty simple.
Prior Art does definately exist.
Increased awareness of this issue and help in searching will increase the finds.
This patent will be invalidated.
People need to talk about this issue and show some interest. The Patent does not have ANY DIRECT IMPACT on my business and what i do as it does not cover live video. However, failing to be interested in these issues and take a stand can DEFINATELY have a major impact on us all.
These cases are the beginning and will set precedence for many cases to come.
People should get involved as much as possible instead of waiting until we finally have to pay a license fee for using a JPEG or GIF.
ACTG Shareholders seem to be pretty ignorant of the other side of the story for the most part
http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&actio...80497&mid=22078
You even go to the board and there are headlines connected to the company about Wicked, Hustler, Vivid etc. Its all a really unfair representation of the facts and the issues to shareholders as well and the single biggest reason why the price of the stock is so over valued.
It was very well stated here:
http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=...80497&mid=22016
People need to get involved. Talk about it. Help in the search.
There are two sides to this story and so far, the market has only heard one side ... and THAT fact is reflected in the price of Acacias Stock. That should not be happening.