The U.S. Department of Justice has sanction Google ’s acquisition of mobile - phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility for about $ 12.5 billion , followingthe European Commission ’s approvalearlier Monday .
Google is still wait for approvals from China , Israel and Taiwan before the deal is last . Canada ’s investigation is also ongoing . The search giant still says it hopes the skill will close in “ early 2012 . ”
The DOJ on Monday also approved bids by Apple , Microsoft and Research in Motion ( RIM ) topurchase some Nortel Networks patents , as well as Apple ’s leverage of some Novell patents .
The DOJ ’s Antitrust Division has “ define that each skill is unlikely to substantially fall contender , ” the agency tell in a press freeing . The DOJ has conclude its investigations into the three deals .
Google ’s acquisition of Motorola is improbable to cause major changes to the roving industriousness , the DOJ said .
“ The evidence demo that Motorola Mobility has had a farsighted and aggressive history of seeking to capitalize on its rational property and has been engaged in extended disputes with Apple , Microsoft and others , ” the DOJ said . “ As Google ’s acquirement of Motorola Mobility is unbelievable to materially alter that policy , the division concluded that transferring ownership of the patent would not considerably falsify current mart dynamics . ”
Apple ’s acquisition of Novell patent that are important to the open - source biotic community is improbable to change the securities industry because Novell had committed to provide the patents with royal line - free licenses for use of goods and services in Linux , the DOJ pronounce .
The learning of nomadic patents by Microsoft and RIM should not hurt contest because the two company ’ “ low market plowshare in mobile platforms would in all probability make a strategy to harm rivals … unprofitable , ” the DOJ said .
on an individual basis , the European Commission on Monday also approved the Google / Motorola mickle .
Google annunciate its agreement to acquire Motorola Mobility , include 17,000 patents and 6,800 applications , in August . Many analyst saw the deal as an effort by Google to protect its Android operating system from patent claim by competitors .
Rockstar Bidco , a partnership let in RIM , Microsoft and Apple , was form to evolve Nortel patents in a June bankruptcy auction . The mathematical group pay $ 4.5 billion .
Apple proposed to buy 882 Novell patent from CPTN Holdings , a partnership including Apple , Microsoft , Oracle and EMC , after the DOJ in Aprilreached an agreement that kept Microsoftfrom acquiring the patents . Novell is the distributer of the SUSE Linux OS . CPTN purchased the patents for $ 450 million .
