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IBM Joins Sony, Nokia in Sharing Ecological Patents
International Business Machines Corp., the leading recipient of U.S. patents, is joining Sony Corp., Nokia Oyj and Pitney Bowes Inc. in offering the rights to environmentally friendly technologies for free. The effort, called the Eco-Patent Commons, is designed to help companies save energy and water and curb pollution,...IBM said today in a joint statement with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva.