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Red Hat Traffics with Troll – Again

The settlement is “confidential”

By Maureen O'Gara
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May 9, 2011 07:00 AM EDT
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Acacia Research, possibly one of the Top 10 trolls, or at least a Top 10 wannabe, said Friday that Red Hat had settled up with its Site Update Solutions LLC subsidiary and resolved the patent infringement litigation Site Update started in the federal court down in the Eastern District of Texas.

The settlement is "confidential."

Patent watcher Florian Mueller is pretty confident Red Hat paid Acacia off. If true, it's the second time in six months Red Hat has written Acacia a check, moving Mueller to crack that Acacia should start a "frequent licensee" program, "pay for 10 patents get a license to the 11th for free."

The patent at issue wasn't Linux-related and described a "process for maintaining ongoing registration for pages on a given search engine."

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