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[bim524]

What guy wrote this?! he doesn't seem to know what he's talking...if it's so easy, where's the beef?



Putting a price tag on individual patents isn't so tough, even in a litigious industry where a single claim of a single patent can mean hundreds of millions of dollars of damages, or tens of millions of dollars of legal costs. Mr. Lennon said appraisers can sit down and come up with an inherent commercial value for a patent "based on how much in damages a person could collect, analyzing profitability in the market of a product and how much is sold."

[1dd1]

thelurker, Microsoft issued a statement that said, "Microsoft has a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free license to all of Nortel's patents that covers all Microsoft products and services, resulting from the patent cross-license signed with Nortel in 2006."
if that is true, then microsoft may use Nortel's LTE patents in their window based Nokia smart phone, and Nokia can ride for free ? Is this logical ? This is not clear to me, any comments ?