Acacia

Connections between Microsoft and Acacia were explored especially in 2007 when Acacia sued GNU/Linux vendors. Acacia lost the case in April 2010.

2014
Software Patents’ Demise Includes Exceptional Defeat for Microsoft-Connected Trolls, But Bar Still Lowered for Patents

2013

 * Acacia, Which Has Former Microsoft Managers and Agenda, Apparently No Longer Good for Microsoft
 * Red Hat Pays Microsoft-Linked Patent Troll Again, Refuses to Provide Details

2012

 * Microsoft Patent Trolls Get Staff From Microsoft While ‘Mother Ship’ Sues Google Over Android

2011

 * The Acacia Tax on Life
 * Acacia Extorts Red Hat Again
 * Patent Cartels Galore: RPX IPO, Acacia Moves Racketeering Operation to Texas

2010

 * Microsoft-funded ‘Satellites’ With Software Patents
 * Microsoft is Paying Red Hat Foe Acacia and Bruce Perens Criticises Red Hat Over Acacia NDA
 * Acacia Slanders GNU/Linux
 * ACCESS Co. (Source of Mobbyism and Attacks on the Free Software Foundation) Linked to Acacia
 * Details Needed About New Red Hat-Acacia Patent Settlement
 * Microsoft’s Patent Trolls at Intellectual Ventures and Acacia Are Attacking Again
 * Bogus Oracle Patents, Broken USPTO, Apple’s Patent Aggression, and Acacia Gets More Money to Troll
 * Microsoft Attacks Linux Competition Using Lawsuits and Threats (With Software Patents), Pays Acacia/IP Innovation After Anti-Linux Lawsuit
 * The Cost of Patent Trolls Who Attack Linux
 * Red Hat Appears to Have Done More Against Acacia (Patent Troll)
 * Acacia’s Case Against GNU/Linux is Dead
 * Patents Roundup: Acacia, i4i, Tuxera, Monsanto, Apple, and Microsoft
 * Update on Microsoft-Staffed Patent Troll and Its Lawsuits Against GNU/Linux

2009

 * TomTom Sues the “Patent Troll” Microsoft
 * Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Linux, Acacia, Junk Patents, and Pseudo Reform
 * Patent Trolls — Including Acacia — Attack Linux Users/Devices
 * Patents Roundup: Microsoft Loses Visual Studio Case, Makes Acacia-Like Moves
 * Patents Roundup: Linux, Acacia, Microsoft, Samsung and More
 * Patents Roundup: Red Hat, Acacia, Microsoft, Apple, and the European Commission
 * Microsoft & Acacia’s Extortions Roadshow
 * Patents Roundup: Acacia Extortion, European Lobby, and Failed Systems
 * Acacia Bites Dell with Software Patents, Reform Sought at Tilburg

2008

 * Patents Roundup: Trolls, Acacia vs. GNU/Linux, and Software Patents at Jeopardy
 * Latest Patent Abuse from Microsoft, Acacia, and Rambus
 * Trend Micro’s SCO-esque Business Model Backfires, Acacia Sued for Defamation
 * Acacia Buys Google Kryptonite, USPTO Urged to Change
 * Proxy Analysis - Bill Gates, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud and Acacia
 * Acacia (with Former Microsoft Employees) is Suing Apple
 * Software Patents Roundup: EPO, USPTO and Acacia
 * Acacia, Microsoft and Wishful Thinking

2007

 * A Patent Reform, Acacia’s Greatest Hits, and the Risk to GNU/Linux
 * Quick Mention: Acacia Claims Inventions It Does Not Own
 * Patent Roundup: Acacia-Microsoft Hypothesis Revisited, Microsoft Loses Patent Case
 * An Issue of Mistrust: Bill Gates, BayStar, Acacia, SCO, and Linux
 * Patent Roundup: Acacia’s Trolling Suffers Prior Art Barriers
 * Quick Mention: Acacia Shares Sink, Company Moves on to Apple
 * Eye on the Patent Trolls (Acacia is Very ‘Busy’)
 * Acacia Continues to ‘Innovate’ with Portfolio

Also see Intellectual Ventures.