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

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More recent appearing first

●● 2018

Data Engine Technologies (DET) Just One Among Many Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls That Pick on Microsoft's Biggest Competitors
Federal Circuit Doubles Down on User Interface Patents, Helps Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls Curtail the Prime Competitor of Microsoft Office

●● 2014

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

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.

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