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Microsoft debuts Web site to search all its patents

2013-03-28 20:09:36| CNET News.com

The Web giant and frequent target of intellectual property litigation says the move is designed to create greater transparency. It hopes other patent holders will follow suit. [Read more]

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Google pledges not to sue open-source users or developers over specified patents

2013-03-28 18:52:08| InfoWorld: Top News

Google will not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked, the company said on Thursday. Google began the pledge with 10 patents relating to MapReduce, a computing model for processing large data sets first developed at Google of which open-source versions are now widely used, wrote Duane Valz, Google's senior patent counsel in a blog post.

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Google vows not to sue over certain patents for open source

2013-03-28 17:34:19| CNET News.com

To start, the online giant today said it has identified 10 patents related to MapReduce, which allows users to analyze large data sets. It won't sue over those patents unless first attacked. [Read more]

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Study: One-quarter of U.S. patents issued this year will be in mobile

2013-03-28 12:26:54| InfoWorld: Top News

The land rush for mobile patents is so feverish that about one-quarter of all patents issued in the U.S. this year will be mobile-related, according to a study released on Wednesday. "It just shows, given the number of filings, how competitive that space has become," said Chetan Sharma, founder and president of Chetan Sharma Consulting. He studied statistics about patent applications and grants in Europe and the U.S. over the past 20 years. Sharma's study didn't consider the significance of the patents.

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