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Nortel patents still wildcard as courts review bid (from Corporate Dealmaker)

As courts in Delaware and Ontario hold a joint hearing Tuesday to review Ericsson AB's winning $1.13 billion bid for the wireless infrastructure assets of bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp., Canadian government officials are leaving open the option of intervening to keep key next-generation technology in Canadian hands. Ontario-based Research In...

Posted on July 28, 2009 12:01 PM

Nortel's patents are wildcard in Friday auction (from Corporate Dealmaker)

On the eve of a heated auction for the wireless infrastructure assets of bankrupt telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp. -- scheduled for Friday -- the company's portfolio of wireless communications patents looks like something of a wildcard.Given the way that licensing negotiations in this huge, patent-intensive industry can resemble...

Posted on July 23, 2009 1:06 PM

Hewlett-Packard continues to mine EDS (from Corporate Dealmaker)

When Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) acquired Electronic Data Systems Corp. for $13.9 billion last year, it inherited an existing relationship with Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ:RIMM). You see, prior to the August 2008 deal, EDS managed through its mobile workplace services business the BlackBerry accounts of about 500,000 spartphone users. On...

Posted on May 4, 2009 4:09 PM

RIM, Thomson Reuters in new venture fund (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Research In Motion Ltd. launched a $150 million BlackBerry Partners Fund to invest in applications and services for its wireless BlackBerry device and other mobile platforms. In the innovate or die wireless equipment sector, it's no surprise that RIM wants a piece of promising emerging technologies...

Posted on May 12, 2008 3:21 PM

RIM: $310M purchase of intangible assets (from Corporate Dealmaker)

There was an intriguing tidbit in the upbeat results that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. reported Wednesday: In the fiscal quarter just ended (which saw revenue surge 102% above the same period a year ago), the company also spent $310 million acquiring intangible assets. What did they buy? No...

Posted on April 3, 2008 4:36 PM