MOSAID

MOSAID (now named Conversant, following an attempt to dodge negative publicity) is a patent troll which has been named and explained in the following posts that are ordered roughly by relevance.

2011

 * Antitrust Probe Over Microsoft’s Feeding of Patent Trolls to Attack Linux (Android) in Court
 * Microsoft Confirms Role in Preparing to Litigate Using Patent Trolls as Proxies
 * Anti-Smartphones Patent Troll Equipped With 2,000 Microsoft-led Nokia Patents
 * Patent Systems: So Inherently Corrupt That They Must be Kept Secret From the Public
 * Microsoft’s Mobile Plan: Patents, Not Products
 * Impact of America Invents Act on Patent Trolls
 * Microsoft/Novell Software Patents Strategy Failed to Submerge Red Hat, Patent Trolls Do the Job Better
 * TechBytes Episode 59: Privacy, Tablets, and Dream Studio
 * As Microsoft Extortion Continues, Submission Filed to the Department of Justice for Patent Abuse
 * Global Dimming for the Cult of Patents
 * Competition Crimes of Microsoft Moles
 * Amazon Regrets Software Patenting
 * Microsoft Mole Killed Linux Projects and Fed Patent Trolls for Attacks on Android
 * Microsoft-Funded Government Missing in Action While Microsoft Racketeering Goes on
 * What We Learn From Novell’s Patents
 * Groklaw on MOSAID (Patent Troll for Microsoft)

2012

 * Microsoft Starts Extorting Competitors by Proxy, Using Nokia’s Patents
 * With Microsoft Mole, Nokia Becomes Microsoft’s Partner in Crime (Through MOSAID)
 * MOSAID Apparently Extorts Linux, Red Hat Embraces Secrecy Again
 * Elop Kills Another Linux-based Platform While Using Patents Against a Third One (Android)
 * Nokia Abandoned While Its Patents Are Passed to Trolls

2013

 * Microsoft-Armed Patent Troll MOSAID (Now Conversant) Wants to Sweep up More Patents for Litigation

2017

 * Large Patent Trolls Called Prism, Conversant and IPVALUE Continue to Tax the Market Without Creating Anything, Only Lawsuits
 * Patent Trolls Update: Eolas, Conversant (MOSAID), Leigh Rothschild, and Electronic Communication Technologies
 * Microsoft and Nokia's Patent Trolls by Proxy: First Conversant, Now Provenance Asset Group Holdings LLC

2018

 * Microsoft's Lobbying for FRAND Pays Off as Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Conversant (Formerly MOSAID) Goes After Android OEMs in Europe