Greetings,
My name is Brandon Shalton, and I started http://www.FightThePatent.com
on
August 12th to bring awareness to patent abuse cases like Acacia. Being
involved with computing for over 16 years and the internet since 1989,
gives
me a very broad perspective over technology issues. I personally
downloaded
digital audio/video files from BBS prior to 1990 and was using FTP at
Texas
A&M to retrieve files from around the world in 1989.
Learn more about Acacia and other patent holders in the audio/video space
at
http://www.FightThePatent.com
I am also on a personal quest to find prior art...and have posted some
prior
art finds on the website (minus specific details ie. links, files, etc).
I
pass on my prior art finds to defense attorneys and interested individuals
(at no charge) that is a private web page that has the details.
Looking for these kinds of prior art evidence (date must be before May
1990
to
be valid to help invalidate patent claims):
C64 DIGI Files
Amiga audio/video files -- Video Toaster!!
Mac Hyperstack and similar
..GL files
PC DOS speaker files
GIF89a files that used digital images in a loop
Sparkle files
SYSOP's with CDROM archives
Weather (NASA/JPL) or Satellite movies
PDP11 use of digitized audio
Contact me below if you have some leads to some of these dusty files.
I look forward to participating in comp.sys.amiga.graphics and help to
answer
questions or comments concerning these cases, as well as hopefully
generate
awareness for others to get involved to get more people/media attention.
-brandon
Feel free to contact me at brandon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
yahoo address listed is to prevent a bunch of spam from newsgroup
trolling email spiders.
