http://paidcontent.org/2011/09/01/419-mosaid-wins-right-to-manage-2000-nokia-patents-for-a-cut-of-the-proceed/ The economics of digital content Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2011/09/01/419-mosaid-wins-right-to-manage-2000-nokia-patents-for-a-cut-of-the-proceed/#comment-85086 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:48:01 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/09/01/419-mosaid-wins-right-to-manage-2000-nokia-patents-for-a-cut-of-the-proceed/#comment-85086 The interesting thing is that the value of the patents can be much higher when managed by a third party than when managed by Nokia. The reason is that Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Apple, etc normally trade patents on a like for like basis. I.e. if Nokia has 30.000 and Ericsson has 30.000 then no money will change hands even if the patents are clearly very different. When an independent company not interesting in trading with patents require license money or sue businesses for patent infringement then they can have considerably higher value. Right or wrong? This is about maximising profits.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2011/09/01/419-mosaid-wins-right-to-manage-2000-nokia-patents-for-a-cut-of-the-proceed/#comment-85085 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:06:32 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/09/01/419-mosaid-wins-right-to-manage-2000-nokia-patents-for-a-cut-of-the-proceed/#comment-85085 Not only does it double dip. It keeps the parent companies safe. This is so Microsoft.

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