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WOW. Sounds like Apple might have bit off more than they can chew. Apple is refusing to license some of their tech to companies using Android and forcing products off the market instead. It sounds like Apple might be able to get a spoon for of what it has been serving. All backed by a 20,000 patent war chest.
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In July, Google bought 1030 patents from IBM to bolster its patent portfolio. Now, Google has done it again with a second purchase of, this time, 1022 patents from IBM. The transaction, which appears to have taken place on 17 August, was discovered by the SEO by the Sea blog, and was confirmed by a Google spokesperson talking to a Bloomberg reporter.
The patents in the new deal include mobile patents such as Cellular telephone communication and Location updating, and search patents such as Audible presentation of a web page, dynamic hyperlink text and balancing browser bandwidth use. There are also Java-related patents including "Mapping Enterprise Java Bean attributes to a database schema", and scripting patents such as "Scripting language blocks to support multiple scripting languages in a single web page".
It is estimated that – with this new transaction, the acquisition of Motorola Mobility, other patent purchases and Google's own patents – the search engine company now has around 20,000 patents in its arsenal. At the start of the year, Google had only 809 patents.
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In July, Google bought 1030 patents from IBM to bolster its patent portfolio. Now, Google has done it again with a second purchase of, this time, 1022 patents from IBM. The transaction, which appears to have taken place on 17 August, was discovered by the SEO by the Sea blog, and was confirmed by a Google spokesperson talking to a Bloomberg reporter.
The patents in the new deal include mobile patents such as Cellular telephone communication and Location updating, and search patents such as Audible presentation of a web page, dynamic hyperlink text and balancing browser bandwidth use. There are also Java-related patents including "Mapping Enterprise Java Bean attributes to a database schema", and scripting patents such as "Scripting language blocks to support multiple scripting languages in a single web page".
It is estimated that – with this new transaction, the acquisition of Motorola Mobility, other patent purchases and Google's own patents – the search engine company now has around 20,000 patents in its arsenal. At the start of the year, Google had only 809 patents.
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