●●● From Techrights

MOSAID (now named Conversant, following an attempt to dodge negative publicity) is a patent troll which has been named and explained in the following posts that are ordered roughly by relevance.

●● 2011

Antitrust Probe Over Microsoft’s Feeding of Patent Trolls to Attack Linux (Android) in Court

Microsoft Confirms Role in Preparing to Litigate Using Patent Trolls as Proxies

Anti-Smartphones Patent Troll Equipped With 2,000 Microsoft-led Nokia Patents

Patent Systems: So Inherently Corrupt That They Must be Kept Secret From the Public

Microsoft’s Mobile Plan: Patents, Not Products

Impact of America Invents Act on Patent Trolls

Microsoft/Novell Software Patents Strategy Failed to Submerge Red Hat, Patent Trolls Do the Job Better

TechBytes Episode 59: Privacy, Tablets, and Dream Studio

As Microsoft Extortion Continues, Submission Filed to the Department of Justice for Patent Abuse

Global Dimming for the Cult of Patents

Competition Crimes of Microsoft Moles

Amazon Regrets Software Patenting

Microsoft Mole Killed Linux Projects and Fed Patent Trolls for Attacks on Android

Microsoft-Funded Government Missing in Action While Microsoft Racketeering Goes on

What We Learn From Novell’s Patents

Groklaw on MOSAID (Patent Troll for Microsoft)

●● 2012

Microsoft Starts Extorting Competitors by Proxy, Using Nokia’s Patents

With Microsoft Mole, Nokia Becomes Microsoft’s Partner in Crime (Through MOSAID)

MOSAID Apparently Extorts Linux, Red Hat Embraces Secrecy Again

Elop Kills Another Linux-based Platform While Using Patents Against a Third One (Android)

Nokia Abandoned While Its Patents Are Passed to Trolls

●● 2013

Microsoft-Armed Patent Troll MOSAID (Now Conversant) Wants to Sweep up More Patents for Litigation

●● 2017

Large Patent Trolls Called Prism, Conversant and IPVALUE Continue to Tax the Market Without Creating Anything, Only Lawsuits

Patent Trolls Update: Eolas, Conversant (MOSAID), Leigh Rothschild, and Electronic Communication Technologies

Microsoft and Nokia's Patent Trolls by Proxy: First Conversant, Now Provenance Asset Group Holdings LLC

●● 2018

Microsoft's Lobbying for FRAND Pays Off as Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Conversant (Formerly MOSAID) Goes After Android OEMs in Europe

Patent Trolls Roundup: Conversant Wireless Licensing (Formerly Core Wireless) and Blackbird 'Technologies' Still Prey on Real Companies

Software Patent Trolls Are Dropping Like Flies in the United States

US Patent Office and Patent Courts Taking a Stand Against Submarine Patents or Patent Ambushes

●● 2019

Only After Millions Were Spent on Lawyers Microsoft's Patent Troll in Europe Loses European Patent Used to Shake Down Android (Linux) Vendors

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