SAN FRANCISCO — If there was any doubt about the value of patents to high-tech companies, Apple Inc.’s recent $1 billion victory over Samsung Electronics erased it.

Now the Internal Revenue Service wants a share of the action. The agency is beefing up staff, both nationally and in the Bay Area, to look more closely than ever at how high-tech companies price intellectual property transactions involving their overseas subsidiaries.

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