Patent Wars Heat Up As Google Courts InterDigital

Patent Wars Heat Up As Google Courts InterDigital
With Google already having lost out on Nortel s 6,000-strong patent portfolio, the company is entering yet another race to boost its intellectual property. [1] Google recently held talks about buying InterDigital, a U.S. wireless chip technology firm [2] that owns and licenses about 8,800 patents that are mainly focused on the mobile handset space. This makes it an attractive target for Google …