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Twitter buys 900 IBM patents, dodging a potential infringement suit

2014-01-31 21:51:32| InfoWorld: Top News

Twitter has acquired over 900 patents from IBM, a move likely intended to settle IBM's claims that Twitter was infringing on at least three of its patents. IBM said Friday that Twitter acquired the patents in December, and that the companies had entered into a patent cross-license agreement covering other technologies that might be shared between the firms.

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