Rockstar Consortium plans to sell portion of $4.5B in Nortel patents

The Rockstar Consortium — a collection of companies including Apple, BlackBerry, Ericsson, Sony, and Microsoft — is planning to sell a portion of the $4.5 billion in patents it bought from Nortel Networks in 2011, sources tell Bloomberg. Rockstar is allegedly already in talks with potential buyers. Three of the sources indicate that this is because it hasn’t had much success with large licensing deals….