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Authored by: jesse on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 03:53 PM EDT |
Most of their search engine is protected by trade secret. The patents are rather
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Authored by: nsomos on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 07:54 PM EDT |
Patents are useful for protecting your widgets that you
make and distribute. If you have cool inventions that
are only used in house, and never distributed with the
widgets, (like something that makes widget production
better, cheaper, faster) there is no reason to even
bother with patents. Just keep your techniques for
more efficient widget production a trade secret.
I am not saying Google doesn't have any patents on
searching. I am saying that some of their best stuff
might be kept as trade secrets, and that patent protection
is not always the best protection for things only used in-house.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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