Nice timing, Acacia Research Corporation . The mother of all patent trolls patent acquisition, development and licensing company, which was profiled in depth by BusinessWeek just two days ago, this morning announced that it has been awarded a total of $12.4 million in a patent infringement case against Yahoo . On May 15th, 2009, a federal court jury decided that Yahoo's messenger program with ...

"Google, Verizon, HP, Cisco and some others" are getting together to buy up patents, apparently on the basis that if they buy up all the tech patents they can't get sued spuriously by patent trolls. Seriously guys, this is 101 stuff - you buy up patents to stop the trolls suing you and you'll end up ...