Facebook will pay Microsoft $ 550 million (419 million) in cash to be made with 650 patents recently acquired AOL. This is the last movement of the social network to grow its intellectual property as a result of a lawsuit filed by Yahoo. The deal will give Facebook 650 patents and patent applications as well as a license for another 275 patents and applications owned by Microsoft. Earlier this month, it became known that Microsoft had reached an agreement with AOL to acquire 800 of its patents by 807 million euros in troops.



The agreement between Facebook and Microsoft is produced before the company's number one social networking world made ​​its initial public offering on the stock exchange operation that could get a valuation of 100,000 million dollars. In addition to affecting the possible assessment, this operation looks like a Facebook movement in response to its legal battle with Yahoo.

Yahoo sued Facebook earlier this year, claiming that Facebook had infringed 10 of its patents, including several relating to technology that affect online advertising. Facebook responded to Yahoo countersued in April, claiming Yahoo violated 10 of its own patents.

In March, Facebook acquired 750 patents for International Business Machines Corp., which added to this acquisition represents a significant investment in this field.

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