By purchasing the patent before, the number of intellectual property rights before Facebook grew from around 56 networking technology patents and 503 patent applications.
According to the Patent and Trademark Office United States, hundreds of patents that are not only obtained up from IBM. Social networking company made Mark Zuckerberg also purchased patents and technology from Hewlett-Packard Friendster.
Regarding the sale of patents, Facebook and IBM were both shut up. Clearly, the more patents a company has, the more safe from a lawsuit about alleged copyright infringement.
For information, now that Facebook is facing charges related Yahoo! filed a patent infringement on online advertising, privacy control, news feeds, and messaging services.
Patent buy-sell agreement with IBM, according to analysts from MDB Capital Group, Erin Michael Gill, Facebook can help to ease concerns related to a patent dispute. "The issue of patents is a very big problem," said Gill.
Moreover, he said, IBM has been known as the company continues to develop his research. Last year, the company has pocketed more than 6,000 new patents.
More recently, IBM is also reportedly selling their patents to Google. Copyright technology was related to the operating system Android.
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