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Originally posted by Trev@Oct 26 2003, 08:20 AM
I've been talking to a few people on the matter of this US company fighting their patent against people in the UK. Some of the information is interesting because it wouldn't be the US patent that they would be enforcing but the European patent EP 0 566 662 and they would have to enforce that here in a European court.
Is this right?
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Yup..
There is a battle going on now in Europe with the issue of EU allowing Software patents in.
I don't think Acacia is affected by this because individual countries with Patent Offices already approved their patent.. and its not software, it's a process patent.
I think that Acacia will start to attract european IP firms to take up their licensing attempts for Europe.
It was brought up in the 3Q conference all that they would be expanding into Europe (4Q).
Fight the Patent!