Google Inc. is actively spending money on the purchase of assets and technologies. Manufacturers of robots and unmanned aerial vehicles, imaging technology for projection displays remaining from Motorola Mobility patents in the telecommunications sector - these are just some acquisitions that the Internet giant has made over the last year .
Authoritative and paid edition The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Google was able to buy a package of patents in the field of telecommunication technologies in Foxconn - known electronics contract manufacturer, who is also one of the largest patent holders in the world. Why Google will apply the resulting patents, and under what conditions they were purchased, not specified. Purchase may well be relevant to the Project Loon - Google's initiative to establish a network of balloons that transmit information wirelessly to the regions of the world with poor terrestrial communications infrastructure.
It is noteworthy that owns the trademark of the company Foxconn Hon Hai Precision Industry last year filed more than 128,000 patent applications, of which about half were registered as patents. With such a high activity Foxconn may have patent portfolio, the ability of stakeholders from different sectors.