:The New York Times: Secretive Buyer of Some E-Commerce Patents Turns Out to Be Novell
The New York Times: Secretive Buyer of Some E-Commerce Patents Turns Out to Be Novell May 2, 2005, 13 :45 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (4429 reads) (Other stories by John Markoff)
"A Silicon Valley mystery has been solved.
"The mystery involves a set of electronic commerce patents purchased, after heated bidding, in a dot-com bankruptcy auction by a Texas lawyer last December. They were acquired, it turns out, on behalf of the Novell Corporation, the giant software and computer services company, a company official acknowledged on Friday..."
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