Google and Cisco have signed an agreement to avoid patent fights

Google and Cisco formed a new agreement to protect against potential patent trolls.

The agreement gives each party a license to пакет patents the other hand, and covers a wide range of products and technologies. In Cisco talk about a press release on Tuesday. The deal was set up as a countermeasure to act "patent privateering».

According to The Wall Street Journal, some owners of patented products try to avoid legal battles by подписания agreement with the patent claiming firms .

Such actions are justified by the fact that the firm may receive revenue from the patent, and then share it with the patent holder. In the unlikely event of a sale of the patent trolls, they still can not be applied either against Google, nor against Cisco.

"Our agreement with Cisco will reduce the possibility of judicial proceedings, allowing us to focus instead on creating new products" - Allen said Luo, Deputy General Counsel of Patents Google, - «We are pleased to enter into cross-licensing agreement and welcome talks with any company, Interested in similar agreement ».

Last month, Google has signed a patent cross-licensing agreement with Samsung .

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