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While it's true that most patents never get asserted or licensed, I suspect that in a pure sale, very few would go for less than the prosecution cost.
by egdod 7y ago
While it's true that most patents never get asserted or licensed, I suspect that in a pure sale, very few would go for less than the prosecution cost.
- gumby 7y agoThat has not been my experience, on both sides of a transaction. Sometimes massive libraries of patents are useful (I presume this is why google kept Motorola's patents when they sold the company off) simply because they can be brandished as a counter-weapon when a large company is threatened in a patent battle. But think of it as a sandbag: one grain of sand is negligible and few companies have more than a handful.