img src=http://www.blogcdn.com/downloadsquad.switched.com/media/2011/04/googlelogonew250.jpg style=border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; margin: 4px; width: 250px; height: 95px; float: right; /Nortel, once one of the biggest telecoms company in the world but now in the death throes of bankruptcy, has selected a href=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/patents-and-innovation.htmlGoogles $900 million bid/a for its patent portfolio as the stalking horse bid. This doesnt mean that Google will automatically win Nortels massive array of telecoms patents, but it does mean that Google is the preferred buyer.br / br / Google, which has a history of lobbying for patent law reform, has been the target of many patent litigation suits. Googles relative infancy means that it has a lot less patents in the vault than big-hitters like Microsoft, Oracle and IBM, and buying Nortels portfolio of 6,000 patents could provide better protection against patent litigation in the future. Its worth noting that both Apple and RIM have showed interested in the portfolio, too.br / br / Mashable a href=http://mashable.com/2011/04/04/google-nortel-patents/speculates/a that the patents — which are nearly all telecoms-related — will be used to defend against Oracles attacks on Androids use of Java. We reckon that Google is simply looking to cover its future endeavors in the a href=http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/03/02/welcome-to-google-kansas-no-its-not-a-new-office-its-a-t/world of networking/a. In the absence of patent law reform, and continued threats to a href=http://downloadsquad.switched.com/tag/netneutrality/net neutrality/a, owning a bunch of telecoms patents sounds like a very sensible move.p style=padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;a href=http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/04/google-bids-900-million-for-nortels-patents-to-protect-from-li/Google bids $900 million for Nortels patents to protect against litigation trolls/a originally appeared on a href=http://downloadsquad.switched.comDownload Squad/a on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our a href=http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/terms for use of feeds/a./ppa href=http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/04/google-bids-900-million-for-nortels-patents-to-protect-from-li/ rel=bookmark title=Permanent link to this entryPermalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href=http://downloadsquad.switched.com/forward/19902317/ title=Send this entry to a friend via emailEmail this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href=http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/04/google-bids-900-million-for-nortels-patents-to-protect-from-li/#comments title=View reader comments on this entryComments/a/ppSource: a href=http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/04/google-bids-900-million-for-nortels-patents-to-protect-from-li/http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/04/google-bids-900-million-for-nortels-patents-to-protect-from-li//a/ppa href=http://cnet.com/Jessica Simpson/a a href=http://wikipedia.org/Zooey Deschanel/a a href=http://www.apple.com/Aaliyah/a /p
