Judge Orders Yahoo to Pay Acacia $12.4 Million

Acacia Research, a company that buys and licenses patents, says a federal court has raised the amount of damages it will get from Yahoo in a patent infringement ruling. The company said a federal court in Texas awarded it $12.4 million in a final judgment in the case, which is related to backgrounds called IMVironments in Yahoo's instant messaging service.

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