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OCTOBER 31, 2012

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , the patent licensing firm, said today that it has named David Witt as Vice President of Acacia Research Group LLC. Acacia Research acquires and aggressively licenses technology patents. Witt has also served at AMD, Analog Devices, VIA Technology and Motorola. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 11, 2012

Acacia Research , the patent and licensing firm which aggressively licenses its portfolio of patents to technology companies, said Monday that it has acquired 7 medtech patent portfolios, comprising over 150 patents and pending applications. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Irvine-based Netlist said earlier this week that it has appointed a new Vice President of Research and Development. Netlist, a maker of high speed memory subsystems, is in the midst of a patent dispute with Westlake Village-based Inphi Corp., over patents covering DDR3 and other memory interfaces for semiconductors.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the online comparison and research site headed by Kevin O''Connor, scored a legal win Friday, saying that a judge has invalidated a software patent owned by Lumen View Technology, LLC, which is in the midst of a patent battle with the company. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 23, 2013

Newport Beach-based patent and IP licensing firm Acacia Research announced this morning that it has named a new VP to to head up its efforts in Asia. working on IP licensing, litigation, patent acquisitions and business development. international executive property intellectual licensing patent research acacia'

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Newport Beach-based patent storehouse Acacia Research said today that it has named Matthew Vella as President of the firm. Vella has been at Acacia Research Group since 2006, and has been serving as Executive Vice President since October of last year. Prior to Acacia, Vella had served at ATI Research and Nortel Networks.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , which aggressively acquires and licenses patents, said today that it has acquired two patent portfolios, made up of 24 U.S. patents, 7 U.S. patent applications, and 18 foreign patents, from a "major" technology company.

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MARCH 5, 2012

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , the technology patent licensing firm, said today that it has named two VPs. Acacia Research acquires patents, aggressively pursuing technology firms for IP licensing and patent infringement. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 1, 2012

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , the patent licensing outfit which acquires and aggressively licenses patents, is eyeing the digital imaging market, saying this morning that one of its subsidiaries has acquired a number of patents originally issued to Polaroid. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

San Diego-based Illumina said today that it has been served with a complaint alleging patent infringement, from Carlsbad-based Life Technologies. The patents in questions are U.S. Patents 5,616,478; 5,958,698; and 6,001,568. Tags: life technologies illumina lifescience biotech patent legal lawsuit.

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JULY 31, 2019

In a major, patent lawsuit, the University of California, Santa Barbara has sued the five biggest retailers of filament "Edison-style" LED lighting, saying all of those bulbs violate patents held by UC Santa Barbara. According to UCSB, the Regents of the University of California filed a complaint with the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Newport Beach-based patent licensing firm Acacia Research has made its first move into the blockchain and cryptocurrency market, saying this morning that it has made an investment in New York-based Bitzumi.

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MARCH 5, 2015

Pasadena-based Arrowhead Research said this morning that it has acquired the entire RNAI research and development portfolio and associated assets of Novartis. Arrowhead will also gain a number of patents and patent applications related to the RNAi technology. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 3, 2013

Newport Beach-based patent licensing firm Acacia Research Corporation announced this morning that it has named an energy industry executive as a Senior Vice President at the company. Acacia Research owns a large storehouse of patents, which it licenses (often aggressively) to other companies. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2014

An invalidated patent or one deemed to infringe the rights of another party can devastate a startup. Defensible Claims - Some companies take pride in the number of patents they own. However, there is not a direct correlation between a patent portfolio’s value and the number of patents which comprise the portfolio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. This patent holding company has charged infringement and demanded royalties from every app developer for the iPhone and Android, for a feature most agree has been in apps for many years.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

It''s a place where people can submit their ideas and patents, and we provide a platform for them to try to find entrepreneurs who would like to work on those patents together with us an the crowd. Dirk Ahlborn: What makes this special, is we''re actively going out to work with federal research labs, companies like Aerospace Corp.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The bad news is that patent trolls can squeeze the lifeblood out of innocent and unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the current mess around Lodsys patent No.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Newport Beach-based patent licensing firm Acacia Research said today that one of its subsidiaries has acquired ADAPTIX , a developer of 4G wireless technology, for $160M. ADAPTIX holds 230 issued and pending patents in 13 countries, focused on 4G technology such as OFDMA and MIMO. Acacia is led by Paul Ryan. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 4, 2011

patents for direct methanol fuel cell technology. SFC Energy said it will gain a nonexclusive license to the universities' various methanol fuel cell patents. The three said the technology was developed at the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, led by G. Financial details of the licensing deal were not disclosed.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 23, 2012

In the patent world, we protect this intellectual core with what we call a “patent thicket,” aptly describing the attempt to surround the core patent with other patents that defend the core and further prevent competitors from attacking the central component of the business.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , the patent licensing firm, said this morning that it has hired on two new executives. The firm said it has hired Alfredo M. Lezama and Nathan Grossman as Vice Presidents of Business Development.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , the patent portfolio and licensing firm, said today that it has named David Rosmann as Senior Vice President. Rosmann has previously served as Vice President, Intellectual Property Litigation at Broadcom Corporation, where he managed the firm's IP litigation efforts for over ten years.

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IP Patents Research 133

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The report was compiled by research firm Colaborative Economics. Other findings in the report included a ranking of patent registrations in green technology, where California held the lead with more than 458 patents between 2007 and 2009, 150 more than second ranking New York, which ahd 307 patents registered.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2017

Well, here is one of those, and it deals with market research first and foremost. Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment. There was even talk of some phone companies using the patented system for serving communities of guests, not just from a single hotel.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

According to OnGreen, which is headed by Nikhil Jain, USC's patented technologies for potential clean tech applications and commercialization will be listed on its website. OnGreen operates its own, patent exchange marketplace, OGPX. The exchange is intended to allow people to search for and find clean technology for licensing.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Among other updates the firm added to its S-1 filing, the firm reported it now has eight patents granted--up from five--for its intellectual property, and an additional sixteen pending in the United States and other jurisdictions. According to the new S-1, it has awarded grants to officers to acquire 11.7

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Our research revealed a saturation level causing unprecedented challenges, starting with exorbitant housing prices and runaway operating costs that accelerate a startup’s “burn rate”—its monthly spending. In fact, as is well-reported, the luster of Silicon Valley is fading.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Well, here is one of those, and it deals with market research first and foremost. . Let me tell you a short story at my own expense. Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment. Fast forward several years to 1996… [Email readers continue here.]

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Bowen was most recently Senior Director of Scientific Research in the Department of Research and Technology Development at Illumina, where the company said he led the research team that conceptualized and developed the patterned flow cell format and manufacturing methods for Illumina's NovaSeq equipment. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

The company has created a product that can be delivered as a service to medical clinicians anywhere in the world, enhancing their ability to understand their patents’ problems and needs in less time, using the expertise built into an expert system created by the best minds in many medical specialties.

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Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2012

There are rules of thumb for various industries in creating a reserve for research and development. To attempt to find an average number, companies should “tax” themselves by reserving some percentage – say ten percent of their net revenues – for research and new product development.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

M86 will continue to maintain a development center and operations in Israel, merging Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center into M86 Security Labs. M86 also said it has acquired a license to Finjan's patents. According to M86 Security, the deal includes Finjan's global operations, products, and technology. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 6, 2011

The semiconductor technology startup was spun out of research at the University of California Santa Barbara, by professors Shuji Nakamura, Steve DenBaars, and Jim Speck. Soraa has been very quiet about its product plans, only saying that it is developing products based on patented and proprietary green and blue 'direct' emission laser diodes.

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Berkonomics

JULY 18, 2019

Patents, branding, marketing and more. In the patent world, we protect this intellectual core with what we call a “patent thicket,” aptly describing the attempt to surround the core patent with other patents that defend the core and further prevent competitors from attacking the central component of the business.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The company created a product that could be delivered as a service to medical clinicians anywhere in the world, enhancing their ability to understand their patents’ problems and needs in less time, using the expertise built into an AI expert system created by the best minds in many medical specialties.

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