Apple acquires over 1000 patents from Nortel auction

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By Cody LeeNov 16, 2012, 7:31 am370 pts
Last summer, Apple teamed up with Microsoft, RIM, Sony and others to participate in an auction involving a large amount of wireless and LTE patents. The ‘Rockstar consortium’ outbid Google, and scored more than 6,000 patents for a cool $4.5 billion. Of course, since Apple put up a huge chunk of the bid…

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