Acacia's lucrative web patents

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

As GregNews writes, the 17 July edition of Business Week, its stock advising
Inside Wall Street, has a brief article about Acacia:

    ACACIA'S LUCRATIVE WEB PATENTS - Gene Marcial

    Shares of Acacia Technologies (ACTG) have doubled, to 14.69, since
    they were featured in this column in mid-December.  The company,
    which controls 47 patent portfolios covering transmission and
    receipt of digital content, has room to run.  The stock has yet
    to reflect recent licensing deals, says Harris Hall of Singular
    Research, the only analyst who follows the company.  He rates it
    a "buy", with a 12-month target of 17.  On July 5, Acacia signed
    a pact with General Electric's GE Healthcare, the 26th pact since
    March.  Other licensees include Advanced Micro Devices, Hewlett
    Packard, IBM, Intel, Lenovo Group and Nokia.  Hall expects more
    deals before other patent-infringement lawsuits filed by Acacia
    go to trial later this year, including one against Microsoft.
    Already, Acacia has licensed its video-on-demand technology to
    300 cable-TV and Web companies, including Walt Disney and
    Bloomberg.  Sony and Matsushita have settled suits on audio
    enhancement.  Hall expects Acacia to earn 56 cents a share on
    revenue of $90 million in 2007, vs. his estimate of a 2 cent
    loss in 2006 on $41 million.

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Hartmut Pilch                           http://a2e.de/phm