Google Inc. has bought about 1,000 pending and issued patents from IBM Corp. in its quest to shore up its defenses in opposition to fits by other technologies organizations, according to paperwork filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Google and IBM spokesmen wouldn't comment Friday on the buy.
The patent transfers were recorded two weeks in the past and cover a assortment of technologies, many of which have small to complete with Google's Net research and advertising enterprise. One covers techniques of automatically adjusting a clock, yet another deals with surface area remedies for electrical contacts.
But even patents which have little do with Google's company could be helpful ammunition in the hyper-litigious technology world.
If it's sued above patents by a company whose organization relies on technologies coated by Google's patents, Google can file a retaliatory lawsuit.
Phone makers that use Google Inc.'s Android software program are being sued by Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. As being a youthful firm, Google has couple of patents of its very own to counter with.
Kent Walker, Google's common counsel, wrote within a blog article in April which the explosion in patent litigation threatens to stifle innovation.
"But as things stand these days, one of your company's best defenses versus this kind of litigation is (ironically) to have a formidable patent portfolio, as this helps sustain your liberty to create new products and companies," Walker wrote.
Earlier this month, Google participated in an auction to get a assortment of 6,000 patents from Nortel, a bankrupt Canadian maker of telecommunications equipment. It was outbid by a consortium including Apple that paid $4.5 billion.
Within the previous year, Google has also bought patents from Verizon Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc.
The patent sale was very first described by the blog Seo through the Sea, which follows Google.
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