It looks like Google will be able to bid on Nortel's patent brief bag after all, now that the force of Justice has weighed in on the matter. by the book to the Wall Street Journal, El Goog's $900 million bid has passed a deciding antitrust review, just a few days ahead of next week's auction. Rivals like Microsoft, AT&T and Verizon had before filed complaints with the DOJ, arguing that the sale of Nortel's 6,000 patents would give an unfair drawback to the auction's winner by contingent upon it with a fresh arsenal for patent-infringement lawsuits. Google, however, claims it needs the container to defend itself against legal challenges, since it has comparatively few patents to its name. The DOJ ostensively sees nothing illegal with this argument, having set on that singular having of Nortel's intellectual freehold would pose no threat to market competition. This is openly music to Google's ears, but the battle isn't over yet. Sources tell the Journal that both RIM and Apple are taken




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