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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
Does acacia have a business method patent or are they claiming actual technical specifics?
If they are just claiming a business method, I would think that even fictional prior art should be relevant.
How can you claim you thought of the whole "idea" for online video, if it was shown in movies for decades?
If you claim you have made a specific technical process, that's a different story.
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Acacia can't claim that they did anything other than buy an existing patent. They invented nothing, created nothing, thought of nothing.. other than trying to make money from something they had nothing to do with..
IMO, the ability to buy a patent (a document for the purpose of protecting inventions/inventors) throws the entire idea and purpose of a patent out the window..
If you didn't invent anything, why should you be protected for your invention?? Kinda silly...