How do I deal with Acacia?!

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Here is a theoretical story..
Say you are a comission salesperson working for a store.
You get a comission eveytime a customer buys something that you show them..you also have a display in your area of responsibility of other things the store has for sale..you also get comission on the items in that display that the customer buys from those other departments of the store too..
But..the person who made the technical specs for the shoelaces in the shoes that the store carries wants the store to pay them extra because the shoes have those shoelaces..so the store pays..
now the shoelace company wants you, the comission salesperson, to pay them because the shoelaces are in the stores that you sell for..Never mind that you don't sell the shoes and never had them in your display in your areas of responsibility..
I've been in retail management for over 20 years..I never heard of such bull shit in my life..Manufacturers would never get away with that..Light bulbs are patented..does a comission salesperson who sells light bulbs to WalMart have to pay GE a percentage of his lightbulb sales because of the patent?? Of course not!!
This whole issue has me incensed..