Nortel

A potential patent bidding war could be brewing as Samsung Electronics is considering purchasing the patent portfolio of InterDigital (NASDAQ: IDCC), according to Bloomberg. InterDigital, a Pennsylvania-based company has about 8,800 patents on inventions used in devices ranging from the Apple (...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) are part of a winning consortium of technology companies that successfully bid on the mobile patent portfolio of bankrupt telecommunications company Nortel Networks. Nortel, which went bankrupt in 2009, has an expansive list of tech...