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Acacia Research has been at this for a long time now. I remember when they went after porn. They claimed to own streaming media and thought the adult industry
by us0r 12y ago
Acacia Research has been at this for a long time now. I remember when they went after porn. They claimed to own streaming media and thought the adult industry would settle. While some did, one company took them up and won. If I remember he said it cost them $500k to defend.
- jacquesm 12y agoIt cost them quite a bit more than that but they won anyway. That did not stop acacia from extorting (or in some cases trying to) pick fights with smaller entities. They then started to withdraw their cases if it became apparent someone would actually fight back. (I know this because I supplied a whole bunch of information in that lawsuit and the defendants are customers of mine, Acacia also tried to sue TrueTech Canada Inc but dropped the case when they realized that (1) I wasn't going to budge and (2) the IP was all vested in the Dutch parent company, so the 'shell' effect worked to our advantage for a change. If they'd won in Canada we'd have declared bankruptcy, opened a new office two doors down the hall and continued business with a new daughter company. The Canadian subsidiary had little to no assets, just desks and a bunch of computers.).