Google bought nearly 200 patents to IBM
Google said, Wednesday, Jan. 4, he had bought the computer group IBM 188 29 patents and other innovations awaiting approval. These patents are related to the telephone group mobile.Le recheche engine, which for several months expanding its patent portfolio, while it is the target of numerous lawsuits involving intellectual property, has not indicated how he IBM paid for these purchases.
IBM had already sold to Google in August about 2,000 patents , covering both programs to mobile phones on processors or computers.
Google, who designed the operating system Android for mobile devices, the first market, had transferred a number of patents last year in Taiwanese manufacturer HTC, one of the largest users of Android, which is in conflict Apple, the iPhone manufacturer. Some of the patents assigned by Google to HTC once belonged to the manufacturer Motorola Mobility , that Google is going to buy for $ 12.5 billion (9.7 billion).
Since the spring of 2011, Apple has also launched a legal battle with other manufacturers using the Android system, such as South Korea‘s Samsung.
With Motorola Mobility, Google has 17 000 new patents and 7500 patents pending approval. At the time of the announcement of the acquisition in August, the Chief Larry Page explained that it would allow Google “to better protect against threats Android anticompetitive Microsoft, Apple and other companies “.
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