Patent (abuse) cases ie. Acacia, SightSound, USA Video

[brandon@fightthepatent.com]

Greetings,

With this post, I have officially joined this group.

Outraged at Acacia Research's tactics of sending "information packets" to a 
wide range of companies from adult websites to schools and universities, over 
their interpretation of patent infringement, I created 
http://www.FightThePatent.com to bring awareness and search for prior art.

My current focus of internet activism is over these 3 current companies that 
have broad claims to owning the patent to the streaming/downloading of 
audio/video files from a (web) server.

I am currently a "one man" show, giving up my consulting time to spend 50+ 
hours a week for the last 3 weeks in contacting the "internet greats" to ask 
for assistance in finding prior art.

I am completely independent, and providing a very biased viewpoint on the 
articles that I write for my site.

I look to expand the search for prior art and generation of awareness of 
other patent abuse cases (issues covered in this mailing list), as I am able 
to expand the scope of my site.  I do have some plans underway to create a 
non-profit organization whose charter is to help uncover prior art in a novel 
and altruistic manner (news on this will come later on).

I invite the members of this list to visit my website and to contact me if 
you have some insights into the patent abuse cases that I am tracking.

I also look to be a participant in discussions since my quest for patent 
abuse information takes me on so many different  paths.


-brandon

http://www.FightThePatent.com
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