Posted on Monday, August 01 2011 @ 23:10 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
InformationWeek
notes Google has added 1,030 IBM patents to its portfolio. The intellectual property covers a wide range of technologies, including the fabrication and architecture of memory and microprocessing chips, relational databases, object oriented programming, certain business processes, as well as key aspects of computing infrastructure, including servers and routers.
Google has purchased more than 1,000 patents from IBM in an effort to build up its intellectual property portfolio, possibly with an eye to fending off the increasing number of IP lawsuits the search giant faces from competitors such as Microsoft.
The 1,030 patents cover a wide range of technologies, including "the fabrication and architecture of memory and microprocessing chips," according to the blog SEO By The Sea, which first spotted the filings.
