Google has snapped up more patents from IBM, including those that focus on social networks, mobile tech, and identifying similarties between users.
As reported by the BBC, Google purchased 187 patents and 36 apps for an undisclosed sum. One patents covers a organisation for “using semantic networks to develop a social network,” the BBC said, while another would supporter identify “common interests between users of a communication network.”
SEObythesea.com also has a longer listing of the patents.
In September, Google purchased more than 1,000 patents from IBM in an endeavor to make up its patent portfolio and defend Android against numerous patent lawsuits.
While patents might look similar a kinda boring topic, Google views having a potent patent portfolio equally key to protecting its maturation Android operating system. At this very moment, there are a kind of ongoing patent suits against Android-based systems, including those filed by Microsoft, which owns Android-related technology.
Patents were a big part of Google’s August decision to buy Motorola Mobility; the society conveyed with its at least 17,000 patents. At the time, Google accused rivals like Apple and Microsoft of collectively purchasing patents in club to thwart the growing of Android.
In July, a consortium of tech rivals purchased 6,000 wireless technology patents maintained by Nortel. Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Enquiry in Motion, and Sony joined forces to purchase the patents, which cover wireless, radio 4G, data networking, optical, voice, Internet, service provider, semiconductors, and other patent portfolios. That arrived later Google enunciated it would construct a “stalking horse” bid worth $900 million for the Nortel patents in lodge to bulk up its patent portfolio. Only rivals like Microsoft, AT&T, and Verizon argued that the patents would hand the hunting giant an unfair advantage, and Google eventually lost out.
Microsoft and Apple too teamed up to purchase patents from Novell, along with Oracle and EMC. The Justice Department, however, necessitated them to alter the deal because “as originally proposed, the mickle would jeopardize the ability of capable author software, such as Linux, to continue to innovate and compete in the maturation and distribution of server, desktop, and mobile operating systems, middleware, and virtualization products.”
