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The LTE rollout has moved a little closer to avoiding sueball spats that have long plagued the tech biz, with Google tipping a bucket of its IP into Via Licensing. Via Licensing, set up years ago by Dolby Laboratories, set up an LTE patent pool in 2012, with ten participants including names like AT&T and Clearwire, KDDI, NTT …

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    Although that sale saw Lenovo pay US$10 billion less to buy Motorola (along with around 2,000 of Moto's patents and an arrangement covering the rest) than Google forked out in 2011, Mountain View reckoned the portfolio it kept from the inventor of the cell-phone were worth the balance.

    This ignores a whole lot of details, like the cash assets of Motorola and the separate sale of their set-top box business:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/30/google_motorola_mobility_lenovo_sale/

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    Also given this is a site that decries as evil pretty much anything Google does that fact that they haven't done it here suggests that this is one of the many nice things that gets done that they'd rather not report on.

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      They're still getting money from the patents.

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