Acacia Research wins preliminary injunction
 

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The company has won a preliminary injunction against five adult entertainment Web sites, barring them from using on-demand digital video or audio online, or providing advertising links to any other such sites. The ruling was a default decision, after the five companies declined to respond to a lawsuit, but does mark the first court validation of sweeping patent claims that could ultimately encompass virtually every site offering online multimedia content

It was a DEFAULT DECISION. The defendants never answered the suit. It is my opinion that this does NOTHING to either validate, or invalidate the patents.

A default decision is still a decision... i.e. a little bigger legal platform for which Acacia argues from.

A decision is a decision.

Why did nobody respond to the suits? Out of 5 companies, nobody responded?

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 2003--Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTG)(Nasdaq:CBMX) 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.
Acacia also recently entered into License and Settlement Agreements with adult content providers Babenet Ltd. and White Sands Communications Inc., bringing the total number of licensees of Acacia's DMT technology to twenty seven (27).