US owned, Europe based cableco Liberty Global has acquired the free to air broadcaster UTV Ireland, via its Virgin Media subsidiary in the UK, paying €10 million. Last year Liberty acquired commercial channel owner TV3 Group. UTV has a single channel which is available on Virgin Media, eir Vision, Vodafone, Sky and Saorview. Nokia and Samsung this week agreed to expand and extend their IPR cross license which will open up additional patent portfolios, particularly those inherited from Alcatel Lucent. This deal is in addition to one arbitrated between the two companies in February, this year. We imagine that Nokia was already pretty strong in IPR, but when you add Alcatel Lucent, it should have a huge net swing in…