GOOG: Heavyweights square up in lawsuit over former Nortel patents

Heavyweights square up in lawsuit over former Nortel patents • 4:54 AM

• The consortium that bought thousands of Nortel patents for $4.5B in 2011 has sued Google (GOOG), Samsung (SSNLF, SSNGY), HTC (HTCCY), Huawei and four other companies for infringing some of the IP.
• The group, called Rockstar, is owned by Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Blackberry (BBRY), Ericsson (ERIC) and Sony (SNE).
• The patents cited in the suit cover technology that enables targeted advertising on Internet search results - the core of Google's money making machine.

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