It looks like Google Inc. continues purchasing the intellectual property of third-party manufacturers to protect the OS Android and partner companies. Not long ago, the U.S. Patent Office has published data showing the acquisition by Google of a large share of patents IBM, which includes over a thousand items. According to Bloomberg, last month, Google has owned 1023 patents describing a variety of communications and computer technology, from "COMMUNICATIONS ON A NETWORK" to "SELF-ALIGNED DOUBLE-GATE MOSFET BY SELECTIVE EPITAXY AND SILICON WAFER BONDING TECHNIQUES ".

Last July, we recall, Google already hs bought more than a thousand patents, IBM, relating to areas such as manufacturing and architecture of microprocessors and memory, development of solutions in the area of ​​servers and routers, as well as relational databases and object-oriented programming. It is also worth to mention the purchasing of Motorola Mobility, which as result allows Google owns more than 17000 patents.