U.S., Canadian Judges Approve Sale of Nortel Patents

Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Research in Motion Ltd and three other leading tech companies received court approval to buy wireless patents from the bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp for $4.5 billion. Judges in the United States and Canada approved the sale of 6,000 patents and applications, which fetched three times what some analysts expected from the four-day auction in June.

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