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chalst on July 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Felix Salmon: The Cost of Patent Trolls

Felix Salmon omits a point that makes Microsoft's participation in the patent cartel especially absurd: they had already licensed all of the patents from Nortel in perpetuity. Microsoft claimed, without legal basis, that it was concerned about the risk of this license being ignored by the acquirer.

shareme on July 25, 2011 [–]

Google's bid terms was that it would have right to modify terms of previous licenses once buy deal went through..

chalst on July 25, 2011 | [–]

Could you source that claim? Nortel should not have the power to unilaterally change the terms of license contracts.

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