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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • July 18, 2004
    An article by the Associated Press:

    ``A small company called Acacia Research Corp. went after some of the biggest names in broadcasting last month, suing nine companies for an estimated $100 million for allegedly violating its patent on streaming video.

    ``That earned Acacia a spot on what the Electronic Frontier Foundation considers a top 10 list of intellectual property ignominy: patents the online civil liberties group is seeking to strike down as unwarranted and harmful to innovation.

    ```Good luck,' said Paul Ryan, Acacia's chief executive. `Their chances are pretty remote.'

    ``Part fighting words. Part truth.

    ``Only 614 of the nearly 7 million existing patents have been revoked, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Some 3,927 patents have been narrowed since the agency began conducting re-examinations in 1981.''

    Full story:
    http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/07/16/busting.patents.ap/index.html

    EFF: http://www.eff.org

    Reference by Slashdot.

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