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Apple, Oracle, and EMC are involved with CPTN Holdings, the
Microsoft-led consortium that is purchasing 882 patents from Novell
for $450 million, according to a Dec. 9 posting on the <a
href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.bundeskartellamt.de/wDeutsch/zusammenschluesse/zusammenschluesse.php">website
of German antitrust authority Bundeskartellamt</a> (the Federal
Cartel Office).<br>
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<p>Little remains known about which patents CPTN Holdings will
acquire, <a
href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/17424/who_owns_what_in_the_novell_deal">although
speculation has run rampant in recent weeks</a>. Many had also
wondered which other companies were involved in the LLC, and the
nature of their interest in the patents.</p>
<p>An Oracle spokeswoman declined comment. Apple and EMC did not
immediately respond to a request for comment.</p>
There seems little cause for immediate alarm, according to
open-source advocate Florian Mueller, who flagged the
Bundeskartellamt notice on his blog Thursday.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/novell-patents-new-owners-include-apple-emc-and-oracle-not-just-microsoft-566">http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/novell-patents-new-owners-include-apple-emc-and-oracle-not-just-microsoft-566</a><br>
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