Digital Media Patents for Profit

Footnotes
1. "Has the Enemy of Patent Trolls Become One?" CIO Insight (December 5, 2005), Sept. 7, 2006, here.
2. LexisNexis CourtLink search, https://courtlink.lexisnexis.com (subscription required).
3. Seidenberg, Steve, "Troll Control: The Supreme Court’s eBay Decision Sets Back Pesky ‘Patent Trolls’ or American Innovation, Depending Upon Which Side You’re On," ABA Journal 92 (September 2006): 51-55.
4. Acacia’s DMT patents expire in 2011.
5. Hachman, Mark, "Porn Kings Aflame Over Multimedia Patents; Beginning today, a small Southern California firm will take on the online porn industry in a patent fight that could eventually encompass much of the Internet and even more traditional media," Extremetech.com, December 16, 2002, here.
6. Acacia Technologies Group, Sept. 7, 2006, here.
7. "Has the Enemy of Patent Trolls Become One?" CIO Insight (December 5, 2005), Dec. 14, 2006, here.
8. Consolidating Statement of Operations Data, Acacia Research Corp (ACTG) Form 10-Q, Filing Date August 9, 2006. EDGAR®Online, October 26, 2006.
9. Daily, Geoff, "District Court Delivers Blow to Acacia," StreamingMedia.com (July 14, 2004), here; Daily, Geoff, "Court Upholds Claim Construction Findings Against Acacia Technologies," Streamingmedia.com (January 17, 2006), here.
10. Streamingmedia.com, "Acacia Update: No News is Good News?"(September 5, 2006), here.
11. This legislation was introduced in Congress during 2005 by Representative Lamar Smith (R–TX) but later withdrawn.