Re:Nortel Announces the Winning Bidder of Its Patent Portfolio
by ignifero on Friday July 01, 2011 @08:53AM
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No love for google? Nevermind, can someone explain just how important these patents are, or else, how wrong can things go if the consortium decides to do evil things with them?
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Re:Nortel Announces the Winning Bidder of Its Patent Portfolio
by Spyplane on Friday July 01, 2011 @09:01AM
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They are fundamental to the operation of GSM / CDMA networks. Patent portfolio's like these in the mobile arena are pretty well only trumped by Qualcomm's, TI's, and probably Motorola's.
My opinion though is that the actual interaction to the cell network is not solely done by android, but by the chipset on the phone mostly. They could sue Google I'm sure, but I bet people like Motorola and Qualcomm would have something to say about that to protect Google and Androids chip purchasing wallet.