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To make a broad point without going into details about patent quality: Nortel: $4.5B / 6,000 patents = $750k per patent. Motorola: $12.5B / 14,300 patents = $
by joebadmo 15y ago
To make a broad point without going into details about patent quality:
Nortel: $4.5B / 6,000 patents = $750k per patent.
Motorola: $12.5B / 14,300 patents = $856,164.38 per patent.
Plus 6,700 patents pending.
Plus a hardware company.
There are obviously a lot of other factors, but it seems like a pretty good deal, and maybe a smarter way for Google to go about acquiring patents without having to deal with bidding wars with consortia of their competitors.
Either way, it seems the lawyers are winning. Everywhere.
- justin_hancock 15y agoThe other critical factor is whether the acquisition is a cash deal or a share based deal, a share arrangement would be very efficient indeed, hard to find meaningful details of the acquisition.
- rmrm 15y agoyou need to adjust for the fact that Motorola has 3 bil in cash and some deferred tax benefit of roughly equal amount -- the actual cost to Google is around $7 billion.
- rmrm 15y agoyou could adjust for the fact that Motorola has 3 bil in cash and some deferred tax benefit of roughly equal amount -- the actual cost to Google is around $7 billion.