One story that skipped through our filters last week and never quite made it into Faultline was the sale of Technicolor’s IPR assets to InterDigital, which itself has larger patent royalties than any other revenue stream. InterDigital paid $150 million upfront in a deal that values the patents at $475 million and it allows Technicolor to focus on its operational businesses. It will keep on doing R&D, but also pay InterDigital for individual funded research projects to the tune of at least $5 million a year. All the patents will continue to be granted back to Technicolor. News Corp and Telstra in Australia reached a deal whereby Foxtel and Fox Sports will merge leaving News Corp with a 65% stake…