This week's patent deal between Google Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. is a big deal.
Google obtained around 200 patents from IBM that seem to have something to do with mobile-phone and Web technologies. This is going to be a good for Google /quotes/zigman/93888/quotes/nls/goog GOOG -1.36% and not so good for Apple Inc. /quotes/zigman/68270/quotes/nls/aapl AAPL +1.05% or Microsoft Corp. /quotes/zigman/20493/quotes/nls/msft MSFT +1.54% , both of which have been trying to gouge Google and its handset makers over various patent infringements triggered by the Android OS.
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