Facebook pays Microsoft 550 million dollars for a total of 650 patents, both companies agreed. Facebook is now the owner of, but will also get a license to another 275 other former AOL patents.
It is a patentportfolio that Microsoft recently AOL took over. The most part, 650 of the 925 patents, is now in the hands of Facebook. It is the social-networking site is likely to be patents that techniques are describe for social networking.
Facebook indicates that the with the patents ‘interests in the long term, wants to protect’, which probably referred to a recent patentzaak that Yahoo was filed. It is Facebook accused of patent infringement. The social-networking site had in turn a counterclaim. Previously bought Facebook already patents from IBM.
Microsoft paid for the patents from AOL in an amount of more than a billion dollars, so the company is now approximately half of the costs. It was in addition to patents for technologies in the area of social networking to business as ads, search, multimedia, streaming, and security. On the remaining 275 units of the former AOL patents given Facebook a license.