Re:Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android
by Zarathust on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @10:35PM
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I just don't get how those amounts of patent help anything. Don't you just need the good ones? Every company seems to hoard them by number instead of picking them by validity.
"Ok fine, you can take my hyperlink-in-any-application patent but you've got to buy my 1000 other crappy patents about artificial-life-in-smarphone". Who's got to select the 1023 patents?
Re:Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android
by cynusx on Thursday September 15, 2011 @06:42AM
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If I recall correctly, each patent lawsuit takes $1 mil to resolve.
The goal is to inflict massive costs until the other one wants to negotiate a settlement.
"Ok fine, you can take my hyperlink-in-any-application patent but you've got to buy my 1000 other crappy patents about artificial-life-in-smarphone". Who's got to select the 1023 patents?