Google Left Searching for Patents After Nortel Loss - Bloomberg

Google Inc. (GOOG)’s loss in bidding for the $4.5 billion portfolio of Nortel Networks Corp. patents last week means the Internet-search company will be looking to buy other inventions to build a bulwark against lawsuits targeting its Android system, patent brokers said. “There are a lot of phenomenal portfolios for sale,” said Dean Becker, chief executive officer of ICAP...