Google has purchased 1,023 patents from International Business Machines, it's been revealed.
Following its $12-billion acquisition of Motorola, which added more than 20,000 patents to the software company's portfolio, Google turned to IBM to continue bolstering its arsenal.
Patent infringements have become a deadly method of combat in the mobile space in recent years. Understandably, Google is thickening its shield as the bloodshed heats up.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine --... more
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