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Google's Patent Binge

Google continues on an acquisition binge -- but in terms of patents rather than companies. Last week, the company bought 1,000 patents from IBM. Now Bill Slawski reports adding International Tech Broadcaster, Exbiblio, Widevine, Myriad Group, Verizon, and a number of memory-chip related patents from Metaram and Successes.com, among others. Slawski describes the purpose of these patents and provides analysis on why Google might want them.

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