Google acquires another 1,023 patents from IBM

By on Sep 15, 2011 at 8:21 AM
Business September 15, 2011

Back in July — less than a week after Google’s general counsel Kevin Walker took to the company’s blog to launch a war of words against rivals and their patent trolling — Google bought more than 1,000 patents from IBM’s portfolio. This past Tuesday, the U.S. Patent Office published records showing that the tech giant has purchased another 1,023 patents from IBM, this time covering technologies that range from “COMMUNICATIONS ON A NETWORK” to “SELF-ALIGNED DOUBLE-GATE MOSFET BY SELECTIVE EPITAXY AND SILICON WAFER BONDING TECHNIQUES.” The IP transfer took place last month, Bloomberg reports. This move is the latest in a long line of steps Google is taking to protect Android and its partners, the most high-profile of which is its current effort to acquire Motorola Mobility and its massive portfolio of 25,000 issued and pending patents.

[Via Bloomberg]

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  • Ddme112

    First..! Hey.. Where’s everybody.?

    • Anonymous

      ,,. amazing ,,

      I just got a $829.99 iPad2 for only $103.37 and my mom got a $1499.99 HDTV for only $251.92, they are both coming with USPS tomorrow. I would be an idiot to ever pay full retail prîces at places like Walmart or Bestbuy. I sold a 37″ HDTV to my boss for $600 that I only paid $78.24 for.
      I use EgoWïn.com

    • http://libertarianquotes.blogspot.com johnny.deathmatch

      They couldn’t get 1 more?

  • http://twitter.com/UrbanEnigma Yves

    With all the patents at their disposal, Google could easily initiate it’s own litigation war against the tech industry but they aren’t and that’s why I will always respect them more than Apple and Microsoft

    • Anonymous

      so google slip HTC some patent and let HTC sue apple..oops yup google definitely not playing the game

      • Anonymous

        I see that more as a defensive move and them helping their partners.  If Apple wasn’t hell bent on suing the hell out of every competitor, Google wouldn’t need to get all these patents.

      • Anonymous

        I’m just saying all of the tech company are playin the same game, google might just b more indirectly.  nobody is a saint…if there is IP in certain thing, like Java codes, it should b protect b/c that wat patent are for.  If you wrote something n u can profit from it, im sure you won’t b glad when other use it without paying ur permission or a license fee

      • Robes1

        If you made something and then I copied it and became your competitor then you’d probably feel like Apple. Don’t be a fanboy! I own products made by almost all of these companies. I buy what I like. But the truth is SUPER obvious!

      • Zac Caslin

        Oh Poor Google.

      • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

        Google did this so Apple will drop their ridiculous claims.

      • IPwn

        Do you work for google? No. If that’s your opinion that’s fine. Unless you work for them I highly doubt you have the slightest clue as to why it was done. Secondly, you can’t buy patents months after litigation has started to protect you from whoever sued you.

      • Anonymous

        ridiculous?   Hmmm, sober judges in Europe seem to think the the claims are rooted in legal case law.

        I’ll give you that Apple is playing ‘hardball,’  but should a patent holder (and applicant) be allowed to protect their original art?   

        As I said, Google did this to have a ‘MAD’ response to allow negotiation of cross licensing (survival of both).  We are in agreement on this.  Google has learned that you don’t bring a knife to a gun fight, so they went and bought a gun from an arms dealer (Note, IBM didn’t use these patents against apple… so they may not even be on point…. this is all about applying lawyers against Apple, instead of innovation).

    • Anonymous

      this is a defensive posture… if someone hits google with a look/feel patent, they can counter with a network/chipdesign patent.   In a stalemate move (where the only winners will be the lawyers), the companies ‘cross license’ at little or no cost to each other.   They’ll never _use_ these to make product.
      unlike apple or microsoft.  They’ll just collect them and flash them like guns on their belts, threatening to use them when their infringing products are attacked by law suits. ]To that end… they are more evil than apple or microsoft.   Dont’ confuse those 2 with  Paul Allen or Nathan Myrhvold… ex Microsofties who are patent trolling.  If you equate feeding lawyers with ‘not evil’,   I’d have to say your ‘respect’ is naive’ at best.

    • Zac Caslin

      And google loves freetards like you.

      • http://twitter.com/UrbanEnigma Yves

        Take your trolling elsewhere

      • Zac Caslin

        Take your fanboy freetard google loving shit elswhere.

      • http://twitter.com/UrbanEnigma Yves

        Learn how to spell first. Then talk shit.

  • Wirelessmodz

    im here googles going to beat apples at there onw game

    • Anonymous

      Did you use Swype to post your message?

      • Wirelessmodz

        yeah and then i couldnt go back and fix it

    • Anonymous

      name 1000 patents that Apple has bought.  Heck name 2 they haven’t integrated into their own products. I can’t wait to watch Google open up their chip foundry. 

  • Devine

    Lol

  • http://www.20b.org/rickroll.html LaurenÈ›iu Roman

    2^10-1=?

    • Anonymous

      sorry Google bought the patent “representation of alphanumeric symbols as a decimal(tm) numbering system”  You owe them.

  • Anonymous

    Google just wants to be left alone to continue their world domination, please.

  • Anonymous

    Patent-up Bitch!!!

  • Anonymous

    Apple will be DEAD in two years (DEAD I tell you…DEAD)!!! True Story™®©

    • Wirelessmodz

      how can i agree with you god dang it

    • Anonymous

      much to my dismay, i believe that ipad sales alone will keep apple alive for 2 more years. i have my fingers crossed for apples demise in 4 years

  • Anonymous

    If Google/Android and OEM partners are innocent, why do they have to take these steps in defense? If you are not breaking the law, you should have a fairly strong case. These are billion dollar companies, I’m assuming their legal/patent team can explain to a court how they are not doing anything wrong. 

    The only answer I see is that they are in the wrong and are attempting to buy their way out of it without having to pay the offended parties, which is sad. HTC is paying MS and other should do the same. If Moto or IBM or anyone have patents that are being taken advantage of by another company, they should do what Apple is doing and get what is due to them.

    • Paul Thacker

      They are not in the wrong. Samsung has caused many of Apples papents to be invalid and the same will happen to HTC and Moto.

  • Anonymous

    It’s too bad good ideas keep getting thrown away because they are vaguely similar to existing patents. patents on products, not necessarily vague ideas

  • http://www.TheGuruReview.net TGR

    Seems like Google is scared……

  • Anonymous

    You Go Google!!!!  SCREW CRAPPLE!!!!!

  • Lightningdroid

    Stop the litigation and continue with the innovation. Let them pay for a license.  Do not block the selling of new products.

  • Anonymous

    Nice apple will get to taste their own game.

  • Anonymous

    Its googles way of saying alright im in, lets play your game…. ahihihi

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