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Patents Google Bought From IBM Are "Weak"

Posted by timothy on Friday October 7, 2011 @10:51AM 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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Re:Are the commenters covering every angle? by daem0n1x · 2011-10-07 11:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Software patents are abhorrent and should be abolished. This kind of news is like reporting the latest tactic moves on mob activities, or new cool ways of cooking kittens.