"Big companies like Google and Apple have defensible reasons to accumulate lots of patents: they need them for defense." About that... The Rockstar consortium

"Big companies like Google and Apple have defensible reasons to accumulate lots of patents: they need them for defense." About that... The Rockstar consortium is an organization backed by Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson and Sony. It purchased patents off of the defunct telecommunications company Nortel in 2011, in a bidding war with Google. Now, the consortium has filed suit against Google, ASUSTek, HTC, Huawei, LG, Pantech and ZTE over those patents. http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/31/apple-microsoft-backed-rockstar-consortium-sues-google-samsung-over-7-nortel-patents/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/31/apple-microsoft-backed-rock...