The FTC has given Intel permission to bid on assets being sold by bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp, joining Apple, Google, Ericsson, and others in the high-stakes patent sweepstakes that can have a dramatic impact on the mobile and telecom space.
The patents cover wireless (including 4G, LTE), data and optical networking, voice, Internet, semiconductors and other technologies. Whoever wins the patent sweepstakes, lets just hope they don't become patent trolls.