How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads

Scott Widdowson is a specialist, one of 10 reverse-engineers working full time for a stealthy company funded by some of the biggest names in technology: Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion, Sony, and Ericsson. Called the Rockstar Consortium, the 32-person outfit has a single-minded mission: It examines successful products, like routers and smartphones, and it tries to find proof that these products infringe on a portfolio of over 4,000 technology patents once owned by one of the world's largest telecommunications companies.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/rockstar/

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