{"id":282,"date":"2010-02-13T21:29:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T04:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2010-02-13T21:29:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T04:29:24","slug":"patents-as-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/patents-as-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Patents as defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post on the role of patents in big tech strategy:<\/p>\n<p>At Microsoft, Horacio Guti\u00c3\u00a9rrez, the company&#8217;s chief intellectual property officer, says patents are treated not as a profit center but &#8220;as a currency that you use to trade to another company&#8221; for its patents. Volume is an important gauge of a company&amp;apos;s innovation, he adds, but &#8220;only if they are high-quality patents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/10_04\/b4164051608050.htm\">IBM May Not Be the Patent King After All &#8211; BusinessWeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post on the role of patents in big tech strategy: At Microsoft, Horacio Guti\u00c3\u00a9rrez, the company&#8217;s chief intellectual property officer, says patents are treated not as a profit center but &#8220;as a currency that you use to trade to another company&#8221; for its patents. Volume is an important gauge of a company&amp;apos;s innovation, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/patents-as-defense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patents as defense<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}