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After Google's purchase of Motorola is possible to put a price on mobile patents and engineering innovation. Five million per patent is not so bad?
"80 billion of Motorola's patents. And we get 25 000 SEK from the company for a patent. It is time for a substantial raise."
This has been talking among engineers in Ericsson's break room last week. A bit of fun, some seriously. The background is Google's purchase of the Motorola Mobility, once the world's largest mobile phone manufacturers who now have only 2 percent of the world market. Despite this, Google's bid substantially higher than market price. It was understood revive speculation about what was "real" motive for the deal. Was it the patents or mobile phones? The most influential industry analysts believe that it was the portfolio, with 17,000 approved global patents and 7500 patents, according to a statement. Google has no patent, which is needed as a weapon in the recent increasingly costly patent battles. This spring had sokjatten only 600 global patents. It can be compared with Ericsson's 27 000. Hard hit by patent war is Samsung, HTC and LG, which uses Google's Android operating system. They have already been sued for patent infringement by Apple and Microsoft, which have competing operating systems. HTC said to pay $ 5 per Android mobiles to Microsoft after a patent dispute. Google has also started to patent jump. Recently bought sokjatten 1000 patent of IBM, and last spring invited Google five billion kronor for Nortel's portfolio of 6000 patents. But a group of companies, where Apple, Microsoft and Ericsson included, was willing to pay six times more. With Motorola's patents are now strengthening their Google and Androidanvandarnas position in patent negotiations. That patents are important in the telecommunications industry is nothing new. But it is the many recent lawsuits for patent infringement with values rising to new heights. And it is only with the last two shops that it is possible to calculate the value of mobile patents. All patents are understood not as valuable. Treasures are the "essential patents" that everyone must use to monitor cellular standard. However, an approximate average value can be calculated.Something like this reasoning to both Ericsson's break room and at some of the research houses: Google will pay 80 billion of Motorola's 17,000 approved global patents and 7500 patents. That means about five million per patent is approved (or three million per patent, the patent applications included).
Ericsson, Apple, Microsoft and others paid about 30 billion of Nortel's
6000 patents granted in the spring. It also means around five million
per patent.
According to Ericsson's R & D chief Hakan Eriksson valued Nortel's patents on two premises. First, we examined the patents they had. Then we assessed potential revenue and what it would have cost if they ended up in the wrong hands. He laughs when he hears the requirement of higher patent compensation, as stated in the company's break room. |
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