Transpacific patents end up with resurgent Acacia

Singapore CBD at dusk. Source: jjcb (CC BY 2.0)

Here’s a blast from the past: two of the biggest names from the early 2010s heyday of ‘patent trolling’ — including Asia’s most prominent non-practising entity (NPE) — have just done a deal, after years of keeping relatively low profiles.

In a transfer executed back in March but recorded with the USPTO earlier this month, California’s Acacia Research acquired a portfolio of…