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Nokia sells essential GSM patents to patent troll
- timthorn 15y agoNot really a patent troll. From The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/16/nokia_patents/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/16/nokia_patents/ "Sisvel is actually concerned with the creation of patent pools, dealing with fields where the myriad of patent-holders makes getting individual licences next to impossible. In such fields some sort of aggregator is not only necessary, but desirable."
- 1010011010 15y agoThat makes it sound like patents are a real hinderance to getting things done.
- untog 15y agoThis is the very real danger with companies like Nokia failing. Although I'd love to see Nokia return to success, I would rather see them get bought out than have to sell of their valuable patent assets to troll companies. It's the same reason that, despite all that's happened, I'm still OK with Palm being sold to HP.
- ge0rg 15y agoProbably the main potential of the deal is not within the essential patents, as these have to be licensed under FRAND, limiting both the possible revenue and their tactical effect in court. The question is however, which other, non-essential, patens have been sold by Nokia now, and of course why.
- salem 15y agoMy guess would be to fund a reboot, and come up with a plan B that does not require Microsoft, just in case they pull another Sendo-type thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendo