Bankrupt telecoms definite Nortel has sole its outstanding obvious portfolio for $4.5bn (2.8bn) to a consortium of 6 firms inclusive Apple and Microsoft.
The other consortium members are Sony, Research In Motion, Ericsson, and EMC.
The auction of Nortel's properties had been hotly contested, with Google and Intel losing out.
The sale enclosed more than 6,000 patents and obvious applications inclusive areas such as information networking and semiconductors.
"The size and dollar worth for this contract is unprecedented, as was the poignant fascination in the portfolio amid leading companies around the world," mentioned George Riedel, arch plan executive at Nortel.
Google had non-stop the behest in April at $900m.
Canada's Nortel filed for failure insurance in January 2009 and has been selling properties given then, raising about $3.2bn in the process.
Earlier on Thursday, Nortel had performed a justice demand to expand its failure insurance to 14 December "to give fortitude to the Nortel companies to go on with their divestiture and other restructuring efforts".
The patents spot the final leading properties to be sole by the company.
Patents are apropos rarely treasured pieces of egghead property.
The final sale cost was ample aloft than progressing estimates of $1bn to $2bn and illustrates how extreme the obvious wars have turn as companies turn inextricable in lawsuits.
"The Nortel obvious portfolio reflects the birthright of more than 100 years of its RD actions and includes a few necessary patents in telecommunications and other industries," mentioned Kasim Alfalahi, arch egghead skill executive at Ericsson, segment of the winning group.
"We think the consortium is in the most appropriate location to utilize the patents in a behaviour that will be enlightened to the attention [in the] long term."
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