Patents, Google and Acquistions; What About Search Patents from Other Companies?
Loren over at Search Engine Journal points us to a post on SEO by the Sea by Bill Slawski that does an impressive job of listing some of the patents held or applied for by companies Google has acquired over the years like Urchin, Applied Semantics, and Kaltix. Nice work.
It’s understandable with Google just being Google, that every patent application they have published or every patent they’re awarded gets big attention. However, it’s still important to look at what other players are doing in developing in the patent world.
I’ve been tracking search related patents from Google and others for years, first on my ResourceShelfPLUS site (if you feel like looking back at patents from 2003 and 2004, the page is still live) and lately here on SEW Blog. Below are links to some posts from the past year that look at recently awarded patents or just published patent apps from Yahoo, Microsoft, and many others like IBM and Xerox. One thing is for sure, the folks at the Googleplex are keeping track of what their competition is up to. Are you aware of some of the IP other companies are patenting?
+ New Microsoft Patent Apps Discusses the Building of Personalized Portals
+ MS Receives Patent For Semi-Auto Annotation of + Multimedia Objects
+ New Patent Apps from Yahoo (Data Extraction) and Microsoft (Electronic Yellow Pages) Published
+ A Look at Some Patent Applications from Yahoo, Microsoft and Others
+ New Patent Apps from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft
+ Yahoo Files For Several Patents
+ a9 Has Patent Application Published
+ New Patents for Google, IBM, Yahoo & Others
+ Even More Search Patents
Postscript: Bill Slawski has just posted a look at some of the IP Yahoo acquired since it acquired Overture here. Want more? Back in 2003, I put together this list of IP Yahoo gained via acquisitions of AltaVista and AllTheWeb.
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