Acacia

[Steve Worona <sworona () EDUCAUSE EDU>]

For those of you who have received (or are concerned about receiving)
patent-infringement notices/claims from Acacia, I pass along this offer
from Jason Schultz, Staff Attorney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

At 7:56 AM -0700 8/9/04, Jason Schultz wrote:
> If any of your members are concerned and want to talk about the threats, feel free to have them give me a call. We've 
> been following them for some time now and have already talked to several colleges about the situation.

Jason may be reached at jason () eff org, (415) 436-9333 x 112.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has identified the Acacia claim as one
of the "Top Ten" examples in its "Patent Busting Project".  See

http://www.eff.org/patent/

and

http://www.eff.org/patent/wanted/patent.php?p=acacia

Jason is the EFF's lead attorney on the project.  If you do follow up on
Jason's offer, I suggest having your attorney make the contact, rather than
someone from your IT organization.

Steve
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Steven L. Worona
Director of Policy and Networking Programs
EDUCAUSE / 1150 18th St. NW suite 1010 / Washington, DC 20036
202-872-4200 x 5358 / 202-872-4318 fax / sworona () educause edu

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