http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-hand-already-in-900m-nortel-patent-cookie-jar-even-if-google-buys-it-05144358/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 15 May 2012 01:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-hand-already-in-900m-nortel-patent-cookie-jar-even-if-google-buys-it-05144358/#comment-104662 Anonymous Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:26:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=144358#comment-104662 Since Intellectual Ventures started suing, I now completely disbelieve the claims of any business entity that it is buying up patents for “defensive purposes only.” However, even when it does inevitably start suing, Google will likely be able to evade the “patent troll” label (and thus take advantage of judicial preference for “practicing” entities over NPEs/PAEs), since it also engages in R&D. Clever.
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]]> http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-hand-already-in-900m-nortel-patent-cookie-jar-even-if-google-buys-it-05144358/#comment-103663 Anonymous Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:49:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=144358#comment-103663 So here is my (somewhat jk question). If Microsoft has a cross licensing deal, does that mean that after Google buys Nortel’s Patents that Google will be able to Access and use Microsoft’s”? Seems like a win win for Google ;)

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