Apple the big winner of the Consortium acquisition of Nortel

The acquisition of Nortel went through last week, with a group of companies, including Apple, RIM, Microsoft, and other payment total $4.5 billion for more than 6,000 patents and patent applications for wireless, 4 G data networking Internet, voice, optical and semiconductor technologies. Some additional information was formed at I, Cringely, the if accurate (no source credited) just collapses, what gets in the patent of feeding frenzy.

RIM and Ericsson together up to $1.1 billion, which is “deposited” licenses for the patent portfolio to them both. Microsoft and Sony pitched in one more billion dollars, although no mention of Cringely, which paid money for especially makes. $400 Million came from more information storage company EMC, which gets “a Unspecificied a subset of Nortel patents”.

The largest contribution is Apple, which put up the remaining $2 billion in exchange for “outright ownership” of the Nortel 4 G LTE along with a number of other patents, the patent “Android hobble”. FANX takes care to note that this acquisition will probably filing will be an anti-trust suit halted the courts as Google almost certain.