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Rockstar Consortium and the Nortel patents
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Rockstar Consortium (previously Rockstar Bidco) is a patent aggression company created by Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Ericsson and Sony.[1]
It has 4,000 patents which were bought from Nortel, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer that went bankrupt. Nortel originally obtained those patents for defensive purposes,[2] so this goes to show that "defensive" patents can easily become aggressive patents.
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[edit] Related pages on en.swpat.org
- CPTN Holdings LLC - a similar organisation, also with MS and Apple, but using old Novell patents
- Patent trolls - Rockstar will be called a troll, but it's more accurately a sock puppet of the founding companies
- More than trolls
[edit] External links
- Letter by FSFE asking for the sale to be blocked, FSFE - sent to who? US DOJ? An EU Commissioner?
[edit] News selection
Newest first:
- Apple And Microsoft Behind Patent Troll Armed With Thousands Of Nortel Patents, 23 May 2012, Techdirt
- How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads, 21 May 2012, Wired
- In patent wars, the casualty is progress, 5 Oct 2011, Ottawa Citizen
- Dealtalk: Google bid "pi" for Nortel patents and lost, 1 Jul 2011, Reuters
- Apple, RIM in group buying Nortel patents for US$4.5B, 30 Jun 2011, CNet
- Bid for Nortel patents marks Google's new push into mobile world, 13 Apr 2011, Global Mail
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