In August of last year, Acacia purchased a position in Immersion Corporation —which in early March announced that it had reached an agreement with hedge fund VIEX Capital Advisors which holds an Tag: TPLF. The portfolio looks ready for assertion Within a week of having received the portfolio from FIO Semiconductor Technologies, Acacia Research Group transferred it to Unification Technologies LLC , an Acacia subsidiary formed in Texas on February 25—suggesting that some of the patents received from Marconi will soon appear in litigation.
There is nothing more frustrating then taking on that task to find out that protecting your ultimate rights is virtually impossible due to a lack of both a financial resources and legal expertise. Acacia Research Group has proven to be an invaluable partner to us. Their services represent an important part of what I consider to be the core purpose of patent law - to encourage invention.
Without the ability to protect an invention the drive to invent is diminished. It is my opinion that Acacia Research Group plays an important role of keeping the entrepreneurial inventor spirit alive and thriving. I searched long and hard to find a proven partner, Acacia that was very effective in identifying licensing candidates and then negotiated agreements.
Acacia provides much needed capabilities for individual and corporate inventors to keep the competitive engines of the United States strong and healthy. They thoroughly assessed our technology patent and successfully represented MobileVue's patent to two giants in our field.
Their knowledge of the patent licensing process was invaluable. Based on my positive opinion of their professionalism, I have since referred them to several other companies. Acacia quickly demonstrated a firm understanding of the technical aspects of my patent and its applications. But more than that Acacia levels the playing field, it enables small inventors like myself to be taken seriously by potential licensees.
We now will have at least a chance of having the case heard and hopefully a jury decide who is right in this matter. I tried for almost 10 years to obtain negotiated licenses and at every opportunity was rebuffed. Acacia's experienced management team and professional track record made them an easy choice. I look forward to a long and mutually profitable relationship.
However, as a small company with limited resources, we could not launch an effective licensing program for our patent portfolio on our own. The existence of Acacia is critical to individuals and small businesses focused on innovation that are vital for America's continued leadership in intellectual property. We deeply resent the pejorative designation of Acacia as a "patent troll". We believe that Acacia serves an important role in helping small businesses and independent inventors protect their developments by promoting and protecting their inventions.
Without firms such as Acacia helping inventors get fair compensation for their work, the efforts of inventors would end and inventors would be unable to continue the process of refining concepts and ideas. As an Australian and US patent holder in the financial services area our company has experienced first-hand the total disregard large companies and banks, both in Australia and the US, have for the rights of small companies.
Without the assistance of a dedicated and recognized licensing company such innovation would be futile. Acacia stood out to me as being primarily a licensing company that used litigation to enforce its position as necessary, whereas the primary focus of the others appeared to be on litigation.
A fine line but I believe commercially significant. I would recommend Acacia without hesitation. And ultimately, Acacia was able to help us successfully license our patent. Acacia Research helps inventors achieve their goals through patent licensing that creates new markets, companies and payrolls. Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, and Alexander Graham Bell, invented the future - our present - with the help of attorneys and the U.
Patent Office. Millions of patented inventions, and the companies they spawned, big and small, enrich and extend our lives today, made possible by patents - the time limited opportunity to exclusively commercialize an invention.
I chose Acacia for representation because they understand the challenges facing individual inventors, as demonstrated by their achievements, and because their management team includes accomplished inventors as well as attorneys. We were referred to Acacia, and after a number of conversations with their professionals, the choice was obvious.
Due to our small size and the large financial burden required to challenge larger, sometimes publicly traded companies, we could not have defended our intellectual property without the help of Acacia.
The services that Acacia provides are vital for any ensuring that small companies or solo inventors are not taken advantage of by infringers with deep pockets who typically ignore the rights of those with unparalleled financial resources. In all my interactions with Acacia, I have been impressed by the technical competence and professionalism of the team. This is clearly the driving incentive for successful entrepreneurs, and a desire that keeps the United States at the cutting edge of technology.
I have enjoyed working with Acacia and look forward to our continued collaboration in the future. Some of the most innovative entrepreneurs are individuals. However, without an ally with experience and integrity, individual inventors have no chance of protecting their inventions.
Innovation is what made this country great. I am grateful for the support of Acacia in protecting the patents of the individual inventor. In theory, patents allow small companies, like mine, to remain competitive and innovative in markets dominated by big companies.
Acacia should be applauded for helping to ensure that valuable patents can remain valuable in the hands of small companies. They developed and implemented an enforcement and licensing campaign for our patent that yielded excellent results.
I would not hesitate to recommend them to other patent holders seeing to generate royalties from their patent rights. From the start, Acacia has been integrity-centered, consistent in their communication and thoroughly professional. Inventors need companies like Acacia to help them realize the value of their inventions. Without them, innovation would be stifled. Based on their integrity and professionalism I plan to use Acacia to help me with my future inventions.
Without them, independent inventors are at a definite disadvantage in the marketplace. When Acacia entered the picture everything seemed to change overnight. Companies that refused to talk to us in the past were now signing license agreements.
Acacia performs a valuable service to patent owners. They are fair, professional and competent. Many of our larger brethren look at us as inconsequential.. After many years of being ignored we recently brought our problem to Acacia.
We enjoy working with Acacia's professionals and thank Acacia for providing a valuable service. There is concern that larger, more well-financed companies may take advantage of our invention if the patent laws are compromised to provide less protection for the rights of patent holders. The services of Acacia Research Group, in representing the interests of patent holders in emerging technologies and defending the historical rights of inventors is very important to the creative spirit and progress in America.
Acacia is a true partner leveraging its technology awareness and industry recognition as a formidable and fair champion for and on behalf of patent owners.
Acacia has the dedicated talent and resources to navigate the licensing process which is paramount for licensing patented technology. I selected Acacia for its acute understanding of our patent as well as challenges to protect the IP. We know that Acacia stands behind our technology -- a commitment that speaks volumes particularly in the complex atmosphere surrounding intellectual property and patent enforcement.
In this case, it is not logical to devote significant resources for research and development, less filing for patent protection. More over, even the law as it is today, I was not able to get a response from many, if not all, of the accused infringers when I asked them to take a license or stop using my patented technology. The existence of companies such as Acacia is critical to an inventor like me and to a small business like PricePlay. Acacia was able to obtain three licenses for my company from major industry players in a very short time and more licensing negotiation is going on.
Acacia and the associated team of lawyers, experts, etc. I highly recommend them. Acacia has successfully enforced one of my patents. Knowing that such a service is available, I personally funded a biotechnology venture which applied for over two dozen patents, eleven of which have been granted to date. Although I have not needed Acacia for these biotechnology activities as of yet, the shear existence of Acacia has given me the comfort to invest heavily in this new venture knowing that if I identify infringers of the IP and can not reasonably negotiate an appropriate license, Acacia is a resource available to me and my biotechnology company.
Yet nothing is more clear in the Internet Age than that small inventors are more nimble, adaptable and fleet-of-foot than corporate behemoths. By empowering individual innovators, the Acacia business model represents, in my view, the single most promising engine for restarting American innovation and IP-related economic growth. For a large corporation, taking our inventions for little or nothing in return is as easy as taking candy form a baby.
We are completely powerless to convince large corporations, in my case financial institutions, to adopt our inventions and compensate us fairly. To say the assistance I received by teaming with Acacia was invaluable is an understatement.
I could not commercialize my invention alone, but the financial institutions I needed to partner with largely ignored me when I approached them with my invention. They were able to adopt my invention without me, and ignore my protests, because they knew I lacked the resources to take them to court and stop them. Acacia levels the playing field for individual inventors like me. Thanks to Acacia, large corporations are no longer able to use their overwhelming size advantage as leverage to avoid paying independent entrepreneurs the true value of their contributions to the marketplace of ideas.
I spent years trying to enforce my patent myself using expensive lawyers and letter writing campaigns — all to no avail. Working with Acacia, I quickly realized that because of their extensive experience and well-qualified staff, they were able to most easily understand the technology and value of my patent.
This better equipped them to identify infringing markets which were significantly more valuable than those I identified. Furthermore, they provided me immediate access to top lawyers which I was unable to identify on my own. They also covered my upfront costs and were able to finance a full lawsuit - something I could never have done on my own. Given our success, we had no reticence engaging them to represent us in other IP deals. After unsuccessfully trying to license our portfolio to various large and small technology companies, we chose Acacia as our partner.
As a small company with limited funding, partnering with Acacia and leveraging their financial resources, contacts, and deep experience has proved to be a terrific decision.
Acacia was able to create a revenue stream that provides OSS with a good return on its significant investments of time and money that we used to create our patented inventions.
Acacia has been responsive to all our concerns as patent holders, and offers so much more than the law firms we considered. Acacia did extensive due diligence on the validity of our patent, identifying infringing parties, constructing claim charts and engaging a highly qualified litigation firm. Acacia brings experience and expertise that adds significant value to the licensing process.
This effort left us short of capital and at the mercy of deep-pocket companies that believed they could usurp our invention with impunity. Had it not been for Acacia, they might have succeeded. Fortunately for us, Acacia was willing to risk its own capital and legal expertise to assist us in defending that valuable and hard-won asset. Inventors are idea people, developing, refining and solidifying through the inventive process, bringing the un-manifest into existence.
Without compensation for their work, the efforts of inventors would end and inventors would be unable to continue the process of refining concepts and ideas.
Acacia serves an important role in helping independent inventors protect their development by promoting and protecting their inventions. However, as a small company with limited resources, we had long been ignored by unwilling prospective licensees and could not launch an effective licensing program on our own.
Inventor: David Mullert. Abstract: Techniques for performing forward error correction of data to be transmitted over an optical communications channel. The techniques include: receiving data bits; organizing the data hits into an arrangement having a plurality of blocks organized into rows and columns and into a plurality of strands including a first strand of blocks that includes a back portion comprising a first row of the plurality of blocks, and a front portion comprising blocks from at least two different columns in at least two different rows other than the first row of blocks; and encoding at least some of the data bits in the arrangement using a first error correcting code at least in part by generating first parity bits by applying the first error correcting code to first data bits in the front portion of the first strands and second data bits in the back portion of the first strand.
Filed: October 5, Publication date: June 24, Inventor: Pierre Humblet. Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for a deinterleaver. Filed: September 21, Publication date: June 10, Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for interleaving data including creating a buffer, writing input data, and reading output data out of the buffer.
Filed: November 16, Publication date: May 13, System, method, and apparatus for mapping synchronous and asynchronous data. Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for transmitting information over an coherent optical link comprising enabling synchronous and asynchronous data sources to be mapped together into a single payload using a generic mapping system which performs decoupling of a clock from each data source, and mapping data from each data source into a tributary of an oFrame.
Filed: October 7, Date of Patent: April 13, Wafer-scale testing of photonic integrated circuits using horizontal spot-size converters.
Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, structures, and devices for wafer scale testing of photonic integrated circuits. Filed: January 13, Date of Patent: March 30, Encoding a first modulation type with a first spectral efficiency into a second modulation type capable of having a second spectral efficiency.
Abstract: In a first embodiment, method and apparatus for encoding a first spectral efficiency into a second spectral efficiency; wherein the second spectral efficiency has a higher order than the first spectral efficiency. In a second embodiment, a method and apparatus for achieving at least two spectral efficiencies using a single type of modulation.
Filed: April 27, Date of Patent: March 23, Cantilevers with one- or two-dimensional actuation for on-chip active waveguide coupling alignment. Abstract: Photonic integrated circuits including controllable cantilevers are described. Such photonic integrated circuits may be used in connection with other optical devices, in which light is transferred between the photonic integrated circuit and one of these optical device.
The photonic integrated circuit may comprise an optical waveguide having an end disposed proximate to a facet of the cantilever. The orientation of the cantilever may be actively controlled in one or two dimensions, thus adjusting the orientation of the optical waveguide.
Orientation of the cantilever may be performed in such a way to align the optical waveguide with an optical device. Filed: May 23, Date of Patent: January 19, Impairment generation. Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for emulating impairments in a communication system. Filed: March 23, Date of Patent: December 29, Techniques to combine two integrated photonic substrates.
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