Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Acacia and Niro File Another Multi-Defendant Lawsuit on JPEG-on-a-Website
> Patent, Bringing Total to 16 Companies Sued
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Assuming it files one per month for the next 39 months until the patent
>| expires, then what Acacia is really seeking is $600M from US industry for the
>| JPEG-on-a-website patent. My guess is they?ll sue many more companies than
>| that, and seek up to a billion dollars ? which, assuming a 33% contingency
>| fee (which is low, probably), amounts to a cool $100 million per year for the
>| Niro firm.
>|
>| And people wonder why he?d like to shut down websites critical of Acacia and
>| other patent trolls. The real question is what does he want from you and me,
>| for our photo blogs, our personal websites. His statements to IP Law 360 only
>| referred to companies.
>|
>| The other real question is how many companies will spend millions in
>| attorneys fees to fight rather than pay the $500K or $1M or $2M that Acacia
>| is demanding. That's the sad state of patent litigation these days.
> `----
>
> http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/2007/12/acacia-and-niro-file-another-multi.html
>
There's always someone waiting to exploit a broken legal system.
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