US District Court Finding Could Potentially Invalidate Acacia Patent Claim
- A Klixxx Staff Report
December 12, 2005
A patent owned by a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation was found potentially invalid last week by a US District Court. The Acacia subsidiary was in process of suing 25 cable companies, 18 Internet-based companies and 2 satellite companies for allegedly infringing upon patents it claims to own, covering streaming media over the Internet.
However, the court's findings showed that 3 our of the 22 terms of "digital media transmission" patents that are owned by Acacia Media Technology Corporation were "indefinite," which means that could potentially invalidate the entire DMT patent. As a result, in future legal cases that would mean that Acacia has one fewer patent to utilize in its claims against digital media based businesses.
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