Inside look at $4.5B Nortel auction reveals battle of wills between Apple, Google [u]
[Via AppleInsider]
A behind-the-scenes profile of this week’s auction for a group of patents from Nortel revealed a “fast and furious” battle between technology giants Apple and Google.
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What is fascinating here is the various alliances that formed. Intel was interested and chose Google to ally with. Apple had Microsoft, Sony, EMC, and a host of others.
Apple paid to have complete access to all the patents while the others appear to license parts.
It seems to all have been an anti-android approach. It will be interesting to see how these are used, especially since any anti-competitive aspects will open further Federal scrutiny.
