???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Nadav,

please fix the handling of Unicode characters in the Subject: line of the
messages you reply to. Currently, it replaced them with question marks. This
has been an ongoing problem with your E-mail client for many years now.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:09:55 +0200
Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about "???In Technology Wars,
> Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature":
> > rover missions. Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and
> > Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases
> > exceeded spending on research and development of new products,
> > according to public filings.
> 
> This is not entirely surprising. As an example, IBM is well-known for
> its research arm, and many people assume that IBM spends a fortune on
> its R&D. But a few years ago, I attended some IBM customer
> conference, where an IBM executive stood up and told everyone,
> proudly, that the previous year, IBM bought small companies for X
> billions of dollars, which was more than it spent on its own research
> arm.

[SNIPPED]

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