A consortium of six major tech players calling themselves “Rockstar Bidco” won a $4.5 billion bid for 6,000 Nortel patents in June. The deal closed last week, but all may not be said and done. The Department of Justice reportedly intends to ask the consortium members just what they plan to do with their new patent stash. Generally speaking, the Nortel patents mainly support 4G and WiFi technologies — areas that are vitally important to Google, creator of the Android operating system, and virtually every other wireless vendor.
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Patent Wars: DoJ May Take Preemptive Action as Giants Build Stockpiles
Posted by: Erika Morphy August 2, 2011 05:00 AMA consortium of six major tech players calling themselves “Rockstar Bidco” won a $4.5 billion bid for 6,000 Nortel patents in June. The deal closed last week, but all may not be said and done. The Department of Justice reportedly intends to ask the consortium members just what they plan to do with their new patent stash. Generally speaking, the Nortel patents mainly support 4G and WiFi technologies — areas that are vitally important to Google, creator of the Android operating system, and virtually every other wireless vendor.