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the word is getting out and the stock is falling.
i've heard they have 60 new licensees from a mailing of 10,000 letters. i suspect that they might have 300 licensees by December 1.
acacia investors are beginning to UNDERSTAND that 97% of defendants will be FIGHTING these bogus patent claims.
defendants like Stanford University and Harvard Law School.
and something interesting about Judge Ware in California.
for those of you that think acacia has an easy slam-dunk with this judge think again.
"(Ware) also nixed Acacia's threatened motions for preliminary injunction," the message continued. "While Acacia has been threatening these motions for months as part of its effort to scare companies into paying up, it has not filed and has admitted that it does not have enough information to make such a motion. Reasoning that he would need to fully understand the case and the applicable defenses before he could even consider such extraordinary relief, (Ware) indicated that he would not even permit such a motion until after the conclusion of claim construction."
Ware also reportedly asked Acacia attorneys if "all the parties it planned to sue were before the court," the message said. "The attorneys responded that they were not and that they had placed additional companies on notice. When Acacia told (Ware) that they had sent out thousands of cease and desist letters, (Ware) seemed very surprised."
acacia's clumsy tactic of sending thousands of letters out to webmasters, many of whom do not even have video will backfire and be seen as what it is---an extortion attempt.
IMO acacia will NOT receive preliminary injunctions against ANY website business before April 2004 regardless of the merit of the acacia case.
which means IF you are sued RESPOND TO THE LAWSUIT.
see them in court.
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