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U.S. DOJ to clear Nortel patent purchase

article published on 9 February, 2012

The U.S. Department of Justice is prepared to clear the massive bid for Nortel patents from a group of tech giants. Apple, Microsoft, EMC, RIM and Sony grouped together to outbid Google on the 6000 patents, paying a hefty $4.5 billion. Google had got the ball rolling by offering $900 million for the rights to the patents. The patents covered a wide range of topics from wireless, data ... [ read the full article ]

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Notcow
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_ 		9. February 2012 @ 18:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wait, it's not illegal for all of these companies to gang up on poor Google, which is trying to protect itself, and Google is being still being required to FRAND all of the patents they're getting from Motorola? That reeks.
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pmshah
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_ 		13. February 2012 @ 09:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Looking at their past records (M$ and apple in particular) - suing Google and Android based product manufacturers appears to be the SOLE motive behind this acquisition. DOJ should get written commitment from the concerned parties in this regard before granting approval. So what was the going rate for those charlies at DOJ?
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