Acacia Media Technolgies has finalized two licensing deals for its claimed streaming media patents, with New Frontier Media through its former Interactive Gallery subsidiary, and with Dellwood Holdings, owners of Cyber Entertainment which is part of NetMgt.com.
Acacia announced the New Frontier/Interactive Gallery deal September 12 and the Dellwood/Cyber Entertainment deal three days later. New Frontier did not return queries for comment from AVN.com while NetMgt officials were unavailable for comment before this story went to press.
Specific terms of the deals were not disclosed, but they had been in the making over a period of months. They were finalized within days of a federal judge ruling Acacia could add several new charges to their original litigation against ten other adult Internet companies.
Acacia originally filed litigation against those two and 36 other adult entertainment companies almost a year ago, with sixteen remaining in pending litigation. The two newly finalized deals bring the total of Acacia streaming media patent license agreements in and out of adult entertainment to 37.
Last week, federal judge Alicemarie Stotler held that Acacia could add charges of unfair business practices, intentional interference with prospective business advantage, trade libel, and patent infringement, to its original complaints against ten other adult Net companies, including New Destiny Media/Homegrown Video and VideoSecrets.
Acacia asked for that amendment motion in July, angered over critical comments against the company on several adult Webmaster message boards, and accusing some of the companies still involved in the DMT lawsuits – including New Destiny and VideoSecrets – of trying to stop others from signing licensing deals. New Destiny/Homegrown chief Spike Goldberg has in turn accused Acacia of trying to stop anyone from helping anyone else challenge the Acacia patent claims.
