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Hotspot Operators Face Patent Lawsuits
by Decius at 1:29 pm EDT, Oct 8, 2004

] The licensing pact demands hotspot operators pay Acacia
] $1,000 a year for up to 3,500 redirected connections.
] After which, operators would have to pay 5 to 15 cents
] for each redirected connection.
]
] "Anybody who operates a hotspot with redirection can
] assume they'll hear from us," Acacia's executive vice
] president of business development and general counsel Rob
] Berman told Wi-Fi Networking News.

I had no idea how high the licensing fees where. This is a terrible patent. There is prior art. The companies (actually there are two) know full well that there is prior art and that they both can't own the same patent. And yet because they are targetting people who cannot afford to defend themselves none of this is challenged!


 
 
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