Court Issues Injunctions Against Adult Webmasters and Content Providers for Violating Acacia's Patents
BUSINESS WIRE - July 16, 2003 07:30
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Jul 16, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTG)(Nasdaq:CBMX) announced today that the United States District Court for the Central District of California has issued injunctions, resulting from Default Judgments, against five (5) Adult Entertainment companies for violating Acacia's DMT patents. The Court issued the injunctions against Extreme Productions, Go Entertainment, Lace Productions, WebZotic LLC, and Wild Ventures, LLC. The injunctions prohibit these companies from infringing Acacia's DMT patents by transmitting compressed digital video information from any of their websites.
Acacia also recently entered into License and Settlement Agreements with adult content providers Babenet Ltd. and White Sands Communications Inc., bringing the total number of licensees of Acacia's DMT technology to twenty seven (27).
Acacia's DMT technology, which is covered by pioneering patents, relates to audio and video transmission and receiving systems, commonly known as audio-on-demand, video-on-demand, and audio/video streaming, and is used for distributing digital content via several means including Internet, cable television, and wireless systems. |
