" IBM " pay " Twitter " to buy 900 patents , including

Announced that " Twitter " today that it has acquired more than 900 patents , especially with the " IBM " IBM, and it has entered into an agreement to with the exchange of licenses , without the two companies to disclose the value of the deal.

This comes after the " IBM " company specializing in the field of computers and software , last November filed a complaint against the " Twitter " for violating the rights of three patents .

After that showed " Twitter " ability to defend itself in the courts , sought " IBM " in the settlement of the contract is , through the payment of the social network to buy some of the intellectual property rights for " IBM " .

It is noteworthy that this is not the first time , where the social network " Facebook " in the March / March 2012 acquired 750 patents specific to " IBM " , just before the show names are for public subscription , as the " IBM " sold nearly 1,000 patent for the company "Google " in 2010 .

It should be noted at the company , " IBM " by the last week to sell its own servers with architectural 86x, Inc. " Lenovo " in a deal estimated at 2.3 billion dollars , a portfolio and a very broad patents , as the number of U.S. patents during the period between 1993 and 2012 to nearly 67,000 .