By: Darryl K. Taft, eWeek
Google has acquired another 217 patents from IBM, adding to the more than 2,000 patents the search giant got from Big Blue in 2011. Google has gobbled up another mess of IBM patents, this time for a variety of things including mobile devices and browser widgets. The SEO by the Sea blog found that Google acquired more than 217 patents from IBM at the end of 2011. Bill Slawski, author of the blog that focuses on search and SEO issues, said in the last week of 2011, Google acquired 188 granted patents and 29 published pending patent applications from IBM, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) assignment database. The transaction occurred on Dec. 28.
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