On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Ownership of Streaming Audio and Video Challenged
>
> Acacia Media Technologies has sent letters to a number of colleges and
> universities essentially claiming that patents it owns govern file
i wonder if, in their scare tactic, if they reference their patent numbers
and the tranfer of files over the internet is NOT patentable ??
- ftp dates back to 1960's ??
- streaming audio/video is relatively new but dates
back to late 70's/80's
- people been doing "transfer of files" long before their
"so called" patent ??
desparation leads them ( acacia ) to make silly claims ...
and/or a silly patent they should never have gotten ...
- what ever happend to the equally silly double click patent ???
- that too should be tossed out the door
c ya
alvin
> transfer over the Internet, or any local network. In essence, Acacia
> is claiming that its ownership of the patents cover streaming, all
> audio and video files which are stored on one computer and which can
> be accessed (i.e., by downloading of the file) on another computer at
> the request of that second computer. It appears that the video files
> do not have to be motion pictures; they can be simple JPEG or tif or
> even PDF files (digitization, i.e. creation of the files is not a part
> of Acacia's patents). Acacia's claims affect, for example audio and
> video associated with eCollege's online courses. Acacia has targeted
> distance education, stating in its letters to higher education
> institutions that it will forgo claims for past infringement of its
> patents if the institution will sign Acacia's "standard" license and
> pay a 2% royalty on it distance education revenues.
>
> Link:
> http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Template.cfm?Section=NewsandEvents&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=11701&InterestCategoryID=272
>
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