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To: Spekulatius who wrote (43958)	8/15/2011 11:54:31 PM
From: reno4	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78704

You should check out the following program on NPR about patents. thisamericanlife.org It seems like tech companies need to have a lot of patents to protect themselves from patent trolls like Intellectual Ventures.

To: Spekulatius who wrote (43958)	8/16/2011 12:03:26 AM
From: Spekulatius	Respond to of 78704

Looks like I was wrong on Nortel patent purchase- it was a consortium and GOOG was not part of it. Still, it seems like tech companies always find a way to spent their dough wand shareholders usually see little of it.

To: Spekulatius who wrote (43958)	8/16/2011 12:16:25 AM
From: Jurgis Bekepuris	Respond to of 78704

This makes me think that GOOG business is not as good as previously thought, if they have to work so hard to defend it (assuming the patent purchase is defensive in nature not offensive). Actually it's worse (better?) than what you are implying. GOOG is defending its Android business, which might have a bright future, but it's not clear whether it's bringing a great deal of ad revenues now. So GOOG main (97% revenue ad) business does not need defending, which is good. But their next blockbuster needs defending even before it became a huge Google-profit-center success, which is bad. :) I already said couple times that GOOG is now MSFT. And MSFT is now IBM. And IBM ... well, it's still printing money AFAIK. ;)