Google’s new anti-troll strategy: streamlining the patent market or just beefing up its own portfolio?
In the fight against patent trolls, Google seems to be pulling out all the stops with a new strategy – the Patent Purchase Promotion, announced on its Public Policy blog last week. The plan, essentially, is simple: Google creates a “streamlined portal” through which inventors (and pretty much anyone who holds the right to a patent) can submit patents they’re willing to sell, along with a price tag of sorts. Google then evaluates the submissions, buys the patents they want…
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