Friday, July 29, 2011

Google buys 1,030 IBM patents to strengthen IP catalog

For Google purchasing patents might just be more cost effective than trying to defend their products in court. They would rather be building than defending.

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Google has confirmed it snapped up a bundle of IBM patents, in a move that is believed to be defensive against the growing number of IP-based lawsuits. The 1,030 patents acquired cover a broad range of technologies, SEO by the Sea reports, including memory and microprocessor chip fabrication/architecture, server and router design, and software programming such as relational databases, object oriented programming and more.

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