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Microsoft buys Netscape's patents for a billion dollars, name is still worthless
FyreWulff
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Amazing. This would have been something that was "Holy shit, the world just exploded" just over ten years ago. Now, it's "well, that's interesting"
http://allthingsd.com/20120409/attention-marc-andreessen-microsoft-just-bought-part-of-netscape/
Looks like Microsoft is arming itself for upcoming patent suits.
http://allthingsd.com/20120409/attention-marc-andreessen-microsoft-just-bought-part-of-netscape/
AOL didn’t disclose the name of that subsidiary in its press release, but a person familiar with the transaction has clued me in: It’s Netscape.
Microsoft will buy the underlying patents for the old browser, but AOL will hang on to the brand and the related Netscape businesses, which make up a grab bag of stuff these days: An ISP, a URL, a brand name, etc.
Looks like Microsoft is arming itself for upcoming patent suits.
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ALL the patent suits.
From what I remember right now, Motorola (Google by proxy) vs Microsoft at the moment.
20 years, iirc. Which means anything they patented in the mid to late nineties or afterwards is under patent.