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Re:Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android by searine on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @09:51PM (#2998581)
Except these patents (and the massive profits they generated for IBM via this sale) are the direct result of R&D.

IBM would be crazy not to invest the profit back into R&D to develop another patent library...

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Re:Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android by Hyena on Thursday September 15, 2011 @04:15AM (#2999291)
Not really. Most are the direct result of IBM's system of internal rewards for patenting. This results in thousands of questionalble patents. Being that it is easier to get than eliminate a patent, IBM is a company deeply engaged in destroying the world.
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