Friday, July 29, 2011

Google Buys IBM Patents to Ward Off Lawsuits

Google has purchased 1,000 technology patents from International Business Machines Corp. as the Web-search giant stocks up on intellectual property to defend itself against lawsuits. 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. Read more here. (subscription required)

Some might argue the litigation-heavy U.S. business climate is stifling innovation. There have been continual patent infringement lawsuits filed recently in the mobile device space, for example. Read more.

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