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

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“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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Herald Tribune: Novell Says It Bought Electronic Commerce Patents
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