Paul Ryan is CEO of Acacia Research, which manages patent portfolios for over 160 companies.
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Depending on whether it's woven from bamboo, acacia, raffia or hemp, it can speak roughly or silkily.
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Think skimming over endless fields of purple water lilies and pink lotus blossoms, not bumping past acacia tress.
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They tried the ant plant, both with and without ants, and another acacia plant, also with and without ants.
The landscape in the reserve is parched, the acacia scrub withered and the soil dry, thirsty for the coming rains.
The French forces neutralised around 340 artillery shells and high-calibre rockets found stashed under acacia trees in ravines, it reports.
At sunset, the red bricks of the temples at Bagan turn a fiery pink against the backdrop of acacia and cassia trees.
The hornbill cackles, and white Xs on the faces of oryx, with their three-foot long straight spike horns, can be glimpsed through the acacia branches.
When South Africa's AngloGold bid this week for Australia's Acacia, both parties were quick to deny that hedging problems were driving the deal.
So far, its scientists have identified 600 genetic markers in ten species of eucalyptus, acacia and melaleuca, a temperate tree prized for its oils.
When sous-chef Barry Frish emerged from the kitchen, Purkayastha produced two items from his bag: a balsamic vinegar made with truffles and a truffle-acacia honey.
The Israeli team sprayed acacia trees in an oasis in the southern desert region of the country with a sugar solution containing the insecticide Spinosad.
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This is one of the largest protected areas in Africa at 48, 000sqkm, or 5% of the country, and its vast acacia-speckled savannas are the very definition of East African wilderness.
In most places, though, are the remains of dried-up marshlands, barren clay and salt basins that contain the dunes' dramatic foil: the dead acacia or "camel thorn" trees.
Acacia did not disclose any terms of the settlement agreement.
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Hairy nosed wombats often choose to dig their burrows, made up of a series of tunnels, below these acacia trees, also known as stinking wattle as they smell like sour cabbage.
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African elephants are known to avoid acacia trees occupied by honey bees, so villagers in the south of the country are now constructing lines of beehives spaced around fields.
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Bottom line, world-class companies woke up and realized that it was just a whole lot easier to work with patent licensing companies like Acacia than to wage constant battle.
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Earlier this month, Ms Tenemeri, wrapped in a traditional red-checked blanket known as a shuka, joined 1, 000 people, mostly women, under thorny acacia trees at Olorien village to protest at the plans.
In the acacia-dotted savannahs of the Solio Private Reserve, beneath the snow-capped horn of Mount Kenya, we were hoping to catch a glimpse of a solitary black or white rhino tending to its young.
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For 96 miles we wended our way through rolling hills covered with kelly-green acacia, finally arriving at Monkey Mia, a strip of white-sand beach where bottle-nosed dolphins come every morning to beg for fish.
As our Land Cruiser sped off down toward the nine-tent Olakira Camp, the sheer scale of the landscape unfolded, the spiny flat-tops of the acacia trees dotting undulating fields of grass and gentle hills rolling out to wide open vistas of scruffy brush.
Emerging into the terminal is usually straightforward, though recently in Rwanda I was asked, with a winning smile, if I wouldn't mind waiting outside under an acacia tree while they stamped my passport as there were too many steps up into the terminal.
The bejewelled and feather-dressed Samburu tribesmen must have laughed all the way home when Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio gathered them together a decade ago and told them of his plans to turn a couple of lumpy granite outcrops in the heart of Samburu country into a luxury game lodge overlooking the searing, acacia-speckled plains of northern Kenya.
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