Re: [Patents] EPO grants Acacia patent on video streaming

[Erik Josefsson <ehj@cleosan.com>]

Brandon Shalton wrote:
> > Hartmut  wrote:
> > It will be interesting to see whether Acacia will try to assert this
> > patent in Europe now, which has been registered as a national patent at
> > least in DE, CH and FR, according to Acacia.
>
> Hopefully Europe will be able to deal better with these issues.

That depends if national parliaments in the Council will stand up for 
the European Parliament or not. Single politicians are slowly realizing 
they have to fight for their political relevance twice:

   http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/demands/index.en.html

Acacia is active licencing in Denmark. And the patent EP0566662
(equivalent of US5132992) granted by the EPO is valid in Denmark:

   http://www.softwarepatenter.dk/baggrund/retssager/case-acacia/view

You find the danish translation of the EPO patent at the bottom of the page.

Unfortunatelly I can not link to the swedish patent, only to the SEPTO 
register:

http://www.prv.se/svp/jsp/details.jsp?ansnr=929041358&kap=-21&tidnr=200008

I have a print of it at home. It is identical to the Danish version you 
find at softwarepatenter.dk above (of course).

The registered applicant is Greenwich Technologies, but the patent is 
registered as a part of Acacias patent portifolio:

   http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/patents.htm

//Erik