Google bid for a patent armoury

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 5, 2011 11:24 AM EDT
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Google has placed a $900 million bid on Nortel's patent portfolio in an attempt to build a "formidable patent portfolio" to defend the company from other company's patent related law suits. The bid from Google has been selected by Nortel as the "stalking horse" bid making its $900M offer a starting point for other bidders. The company said that protecting the open source communities around Android and Chrome was one of the reasons it was bidding. Google is still a relatively young company and has not applied for that many patents.

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