Hewlett-Packard announced on Thursday that it sold a block of old mobile technology patents to wireless chip company Qualcomm.
Financial terms haven't been disclosed, but the sale includes a batch of 1,400 patents and applications for some still pending in the U.S. and another 1,000 patents and applications from other countries.
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—By Arik Hesseldahl, recode.net.
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