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Patents Google Bought From IBM Are "Weak"

Posted by timothy on from the how-patent-lawyers-taunt-each-other dept.

holy_calamity writes "Slashdot noted in September that Google had bought 1023 patents from IBM. Now IP analytics firms IPVision says they're a 'mixed bag' of mostly unrelated patents that won't be much use in defending against competitors such as Microsoft or Apple. Patents are most useful when they are tightly linked into clusters by references, such that they cover every angle on an idea, something Google's new collection lacks."

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  1. Re:On their own, maybe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Have you masturbated enough to your Android phone today? Think about it whilst you earn 80k and have an ugly significant other.