Google has announced the Patent Purchase Promotion – a marketplace where patent owners can offer to sell their patents to Google at their own set prices.
This move is aimed to prevent patents from falling into the hands of “patent trolls”. This experimental market opens from May 8 to May 22 this year.
Read more about Google’s idea on their public policy blog here:
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.sg/2015/04/announcing-patent-purchase-promotion.html