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The New York Times: Secretive Buyer of Some E-Commerce Patents Turns Out to Be Novell

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 2, 2005

“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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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