Google Launches a Marketplace To Buy Patents From Interested Sellers

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 27, 2015 @04:27AM from the fighting-the-trolls dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google has announced an experimental marketplace called the Patent Purchase Promotion, which aims to keep patents out of the hands of patent trolls. From the announcement: "By simplifying the process and having a concentrated submission window, we can focus our efforts into quickly evaluating patent assets and getting responses back to potential sellers quickly. Hopefully this will translate into better experiences for sellers, and remove the complications of working with entities such as patent trolls."

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Which patent trolls ... by gstoddart · 2015-04-27 05:08 · Score: 1, Troll

Sorry, but am I supposed to believe this will create anything other than a different kind of patent troll?
Putting a bunch more patents into Google's hands doesn't prevent them from being patent trolls. This is purely about letting Google buy more patents, not protecting us from patent trolls.
Greedy bastards.

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