Law360 (October 28, 2005, 12:00 AM EDT) -- Weeks after forcing schools to pen licensing deals for its streaming-media patents, patent holding company Acacia Research Corp. is now setting its sights on manufacturers and heavy industry with a newly acquired patent for resource scheduling technology.
The holding company, which routinely asserts its patents against companies across industries, said it had squeezed a license from Rockwell Automation Inc., a global provider of industrial automation.
Acacia asserted the patent through one of its many wholly owned subsidiaries, TechSearch LLC, which is part of Acacia’s Technologies group....
Acacia Targets Heavy Industry With New Patent
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