I did quite a bit of reading last night and found some interesting tidbits that I will share once I settle in....
But I will start with this one....
As is publically known.... A majority of Acacia'a team came from Gemstar. Gemstar became famous for it's patent litigation. At one point, Gemstar had over 200 lawyers working cases for them....
So, the strategy of "an army of lawyers" has been used by these same people before and to a large degree was sucessful.
This army of lawyers was extremely successful in getting licensees signed up... But ultimately, when the patents were challenged by several of the licensees, Gemstar LOST !!!! The Patents were never upheld or not, what was found was that the companies involved had NOT infringed upon the patents and further that at least one of the patents was unenforceable....
I have a ton of stuff about all this that I put into several text docs and like I said, once I settle in this morning I will start posting them in a way that will make sense, I hope
10-24-2003
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