RIM studies bid for Nortel wireless patents: report (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Research In Motion haw attempt to top Google Inc's $900 million effort for Nortel Networks Corp.'s wireless profession patents, according to a Bloomberg report citing two grouping old with the plans.
Nortel, which filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2009, was a originator in wired and wireless meshwork profession and the assets allow some 6,000 patents and papers applications for wireless, data and optical networking, voice, Internet, semiconductors and another technologies.
Google ingrained itself as a "stalking horse" for a flat of its patents with a $900 million effort earlier this month.
Google, which runs the world's most popular see engine, wants the Nortel patents to help it fisticuffs a growing wireless papers war against well-armed ambulatory superpowers. The company has pushed its Android ambulatory sound software to the top of the wireless heap, attracting litigation in the process.
Interest in the Nortel patents has been robust, but a deal has been suspended as Nortel's liquidators and potential buyers dicker over price.
Analysts have said another due bidders could allow Asiatic medium meshwork company ZTE, Ericsson, which bought most of Nortel's wireless operations, and RPX, which licenses patents on behalf of member clients for a fee.
RIM was not directly acquirable for interpret on the Bloomberg report.
(Reporting by Paul Thomasch, editing by physiologist Orr)
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