Google bought @1023 patents from IBM.  The patent wars don’t seem to be ending anytime soon.  So Google is trying to shore up it’s defenses.  None of the articles we could find could tell us exactly what was in the patent grab.  Neither was anyone sure what was paid for them.  What we do know is that Patents seem to be going for about $400,000/patent on average.  So it goes without saying that they spent a lot.