Government investigating Nortel patent sale

Looks like things were not home and hosed after all
The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Department of Justice is "intensifying" an investigation of the portfolio buyers to see whether they plan on launching litigation against competitors, specifically ones using Google's Android. That deal got approval from courts in both the U.S. and Canada (where Nortel is headquartered) on July 11.
The Justice Department is interviewing the winning companies to see if they plan on filing suits against other handset makers using Google's Android operating system software. If they are then the DoJ could tell them that they can't.