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IBM Locking Up Lots of Cloud Computing Patents

dkatana writes: In an article for InformationWeek Charles Babcock notes that IBM has been hoarding patents on every aspect of cloud computing. They’ve secured about 1,200 in the past 18 months, including ~400 so far this year. “For those who conceive of the cloud as an environment based on public standards with many shared elements, the grant of these patents isn’t entirely reassuring.” Babcock says, and he adds: “Whatever the intent, these patents illustrate how the cloud, even though it’s conceived of as a shared environment following public standards, may be subject to some of the same intellectual property disputes and patent trolling as earlier, more directly proprietary environments.”


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