“Google Inc. said Friday that it has purchased technology patents from International Business Machines Corp. as the Web-search giant stocks up on intellectual property to defend itself against lawsuits,” Amir Efrati reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“The purchase was reported earlier by the blog SEO by the Sea, which said Google in mid-July recorded the acquisition of more than 1,000 patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,” Efrati reports. “The patents involve the ‘”fabrication and architecture of memory and microprocessing chips,’ computer architecture including servers and routers and online search engines, among other things.”
Efrati reports, “The Google spokesman declined to comment on the purchase price. It wasn’t immediately clear which of the patents might be useful to Google to shield against lawsuits… Google, of Mountain View, Calif., has been in talks to buy InterDigial Inc., a company that owns thousands of patents and licenses them but doesn’t create products, people familiar with the matter have said. Such an acquisition would cost several billion dollars.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Remember, the only patents that radiate goodness, sunshine, and light are Google patents. All others are dark instruments that stifle “innovation.”
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