Google Patents

Google Moves To Protect Android With Latest Buy

Bloomberg | Posted 11.15.2011

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Google Inc. (GOOG) bought 1,023 patents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) as the Internet search and advertising company bolsters its s...

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Are Patents Stifling Innovation at Google? Maybe, Maybe Not

Eric K. Clemons | Posted 10.28.2011

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Eric K. Clemons

The FTC is investigating Google, and Google is mounting a massive public relations blitz in its own defense. Both are probably justified.

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How Google Plans To Protect Android From Apple

Bloomberg | Posted 10.22.2011

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Among Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.’s more than 17,000 patents, a group of 18 may prove most useful in Google Inc. (GOOG)’s effort to fend off l...

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The Age of Disablement

Brian Kahin | Posted 10.12.2011

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Brian Kahin

Prices are being paid for the power to block others from using technology they have developed independently. Too many companies are now embracing legal weapons on large-scale -- and social capital is suffering.

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Google Snaps Up 1,000 IBM Patents

AP | By PETER SVENSSON | Posted 10.01.2011

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NEW YORK -- Google Inc. has bought about 1,000 pending and issued patents from IBM Corp. in its quest to shore up its defenses against suits by other ...

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Google Snaps Up Some 1,000 Patents

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 09.30.2011

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NEW YORK — Google Inc. has bought about 1,000 pending and issued patents from IBM Corp. in its quest to shore up its defenses against suits by o...

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The Weirdest Patents In The World (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser and Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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The American patent system has long been criticized for being inefficient and for hindering innovation. But, for all its disadvantages, our patent pro...

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