Paid social networking Twitter 36 million U.S. dollars to meet the acquisition of 900 patented a private company IBM IBM, and join it in a cross-licensing agreement .And solve this Convention, which took place in the month of December last year and announced in January , the conflict that pushed IBM competent in the field of computers and software , last November to lodge a complaint against Twitter for violating the rights of three patents .After Twitter showed its ability to defend itself in the courts , IBM sought in order to settle the contract , through the payment of the social network to buy some of the intellectual property rights of their own .Twitter now owns 956 licenses patented and about 100 others had been applied for in the United States, before launching its IPO last November has had the network 9 patent rights only , making it an easy target for intellectual property disputes .Confirming this, said Twitter to deposit her , she shared at the present time in a number of lawsuits over intellectual property rights , she said , and as we face increasing competition , we expect to increase the number of lawsuits filed against us relating to patents and intellectual property.With regard to disputes between IBM and other companies , this is not the first time , where the social network Facebook in March 2012 acquired 750 patents specific to IBM , just before the show names are for public subscription , as the IBM sold nearly 1,000 It should be noted that when IBM conducted last January to sell its own servers with architectural 86x, Inc., Lenovo , in a deal estimated at 2 .3 billion dollars , and a very broad portfolio of patents , as the number of U.S. patents during the period between 1993 and 2012 to nearly 67,000 .
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