First, it depends on whether the acquired company really has the core technology that the acquirer does not have but needs very much;
The second is to see what is the core technology of the acquired company. Because only the company is acquired, all you can get is the assets and patents under the company name.
A company's core technology is not necessarily in the patent, but some companies express the core technology in the patent and write the specific drawings, processes, processes, algorithms and methods in the patent technical documents, which may shorten the research and development cycle.
But sometimes a company's core technology is not in the patent. What outsiders don't know may be in the patent, but in fact it may be in one or two core technical backbones. Patent documents may be useless or invalid to outsiders, and the detailed core technology may be in the minds of one or two core technical backbones. If he leaves, the company will have no core technology.
For example, I am good at playing CS. I applied for a technical patent for blind sniper without opening a magnifying glass. You bought a patent, and you can play blind sniper without opening a magnifying glass in the future. But you found that others were playing blind sniper, why didn't anyone get hacked? ......