Facebook recently shopped intellectual property portfolio of 750 patents from IBM. Expenditures are estimated to spend a lot of money is intended to protect the social networking company. The patents cover a wide range of software and network technology.
As is known, some time ago Facebook was sued by Yahoo due to copyright infringement. In order not to repeat the same scene again, Facebook is now better equip themselves relating to patents. In addition to these demands, Facebook will also hold an IPO (Initial Public Offering) with a capitalization of capital to 100 billion dollars. With the plan, up rated to keep its products with patents pending.
Actually, the number of patents which are not bought up by Google's ever done. Reportedly, in 2011 Google yesterday dared to shop as much as 2000 patents from IBM. Before you buy patents from IBM, and even rumored Facebook only has 56 patents.
Interesting to see if Facebook has found something to fight against Yahoo via their new patent collections.
As is known, some time ago Facebook was sued by Yahoo due to copyright infringement. In order not to repeat the same scene again, Facebook is now better equip themselves relating to patents. In addition to these demands, Facebook will also hold an IPO (Initial Public Offering) with a capitalization of capital to 100 billion dollars. With the plan, up rated to keep its products with patents pending.
Actually, the number of patents which are not bought up by Google's ever done. Reportedly, in 2011 Google yesterday dared to shop as much as 2000 patents from IBM. Before you buy patents from IBM, and even rumored Facebook only has 56 patents.
Interesting to see if Facebook has found something to fight against Yahoo via their new patent collections.
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