Re:Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents
by dimitar on Friday July 29, 2011 @03:02AM
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Well, Google is a business and I'm sure that their decision to stockpile patents is a business one. I doubt that Google can reform the law by itself - it will be against every major software-producing entity.
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Re:Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents
by aaronharder on Friday July 29, 2011 @06:57AM
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Not to mention going against the "USPTO cash cow" in which the U.S. government has a vested interest: http://www.osnews.com/story/24987/Microsoft_s_Android_Shaked...
Re:Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents
by MartinCron on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:02PM
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I got the impression from last week's This American Life that a lot of large tech companies are buying defensive arsenals of patents. And that Google lost out on the Nortel patents because a group of other companies (including Microsoft and Apple) paid even more for them.
It seems that there are a lot of companies that would benefit from incremental but substantive patent reform, and lobbying for it could be cheaper than the billions wasted on patent defense now.