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Facebook Buys Microsoft Patents

Facebook is paying $550 million to Microsoft for some of the patents the software giant recently bought from AOL, as the social network beefs up its patent defenses ahead of its IPO.

 

AOL to sell over 800 patents to Microsoft

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Faltering Internet icon AOL was able to squeeze out more than $1 billion from Microsoft for a trove of some 800 patents in an auction, the latest sign of just how valuable such portfolios can be for the world's biggest technology companies.

Senh: Jeez, patents are all the rage nowadays for tech companies planning to sue each other.

 

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