" Twitter " pay 36 million dollars to meet the acquisition of 900 patents

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 / December last year and announced in January , the conflict that pushed the company " IBM " competent in the field of computers and software , last November to lodge 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 of their own .

And have a " Twitter " now permits 956 patents and about 100 others had been applied for in the United States, before putting its IPO last November has had the network rights 9 patents only , making it an easy target for intellectual property disputes .

Confirming that said " Twitter to deposit her , she shared at the present time in a number of lawsuits over intellectual property rights , and added ," 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 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 patents to the company " Google " in 2010 .

It should be noted that with the company , " IBM " , which had last January 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 patents U.S. Patent during the period between 1993 and 2012 to nearly 67,000 .