Google buys more than a thousand IBM patents
To protect against patent lawsuits, Google is trying hard to assemble a patent pool. Recall that in June, Google unsuccessfully tried to buy 6000+ patents of the bankrupt company Nortel Networks for $ 3.14159 billion, but lost the auction to a consortium of companies, which included Apple, Microsoft and Research In Motion Ltd. Fortunately, in the case of IBM, the transaction was successful. As reported by Bloomberg , Google portfolio will replenish 1030 patents purchased from IBM this month.
“Like many technology companies, sometimes we buy patents that are relevant to our business,” a Google spokesman said in an e-mail interview. The company is now the defendant in several patent lawsuits. At least six lawsuits filed in connection with the Android operating system. At the same time, Google itself has never filed a patent lawsuit against anyone.
Google representatives have repeatedly advocated for the revision of patent laws. In their opinion, software patents are a brake on innovation in the technology industry.
Patents purchased from IBM cover various areas: the production and architecture of memory chips and microprocessors, various areas of computer architecture, including servers and routers. A number of patents cover relational databases, object-oriented programming, and a wide range of business processes.
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Here are some of the patents purchased that concern search and search engines:
“Like many technology companies, sometimes we buy patents that are relevant to our business,” a Google spokesman said in an e-mail interview. The company is now the defendant in several patent lawsuits. At least six lawsuits filed in connection with the Android operating system. At the same time, Google itself has never filed a patent lawsuit against anyone.
Google representatives have repeatedly advocated for the revision of patent laws. In their opinion, software patents are a brake on innovation in the technology industry.
Patents purchased from IBM cover various areas: the production and architecture of memory chips and microprocessors, various areas of computer architecture, including servers and routers. A number of patents cover relational databases, object-oriented programming, and a wide range of business processes.
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Here are some of the patents purchased that concern search and search engines:
- Data Mining Methodology
- Discovery Of The Target
- System And Method For Web-Based Querying
- Grammar Notation In A “Literate” Programming Environment
- A Directory Server App.
- The System For The Rescueory Of The Search Engine
- System Modification Scoring System Method
- There is a link to the web page.
- Method And System For Classifying Semi-Structured Documents
- Majority Schema In Semi-Structured Data
- System And Method For Query Processing And Optimization For Xml Repositories
- Searchying Duplicate Documents
- Scores Of Schemas And Documents
- System And Method For Ranking Nodes In A Network
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