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July 16, 2003--Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTG - News; Nasdaq:CBMX - News) announced today that the United States District Court for the Central District of California has issued injunctions, resulting from Default Judgments, against five (5) Adult Entertainment companies for violating Acacia's DMT patents. The Court issued the injunctions against Extreme Productions, Go Entertainment, Lace Productions, WebZotic LLC, and Wild Ventures, LLC. The injunctions prohibit these companies from infringing Acacia's DMT patents by transmitting compressed digital video information from any of their websites.
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Ouch.
Have any of these companies actually stopped their so-called patent-infringing activity due to this injunction?
This whole thing is just ridiculous, and it's obvious what they're doing and why they *aren't* going after Real Networks and Microsoft yet.
I just wish someone in this industry knew someone high-up at either Real and/or Microsoft and could get one of those companies to file an "affected party" paper with the court.
Not sure if that's the proper name but basically it says "the judgements from this trial will also affect us directly, so we hereby submit our thoughts on the matter for the court's consideration".
It's what all of the big newspapers, etc. did when Larry Flynt was in court and they finally realized that if Flynt was shut up, they would be shut up as well.