On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 07:23:51PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >> | >> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/google-closes-12-5-billion-deal-to-buy-motorola-mobility/ >> | (last visited May 24, 2012). Google has since said that of the $12.5B, >> $5.5 were >> | for patents, which is still a staggering sum. > > No, it's not. It's actually a meager sum when you consider that they > bought more than 17,000 active and 7,500 pending patents. > > Google calculator tells me that's $265,000 for each patent, which is > pretty cheap considering it supposed to cover the costs of the > developers, patent fees, lawyers, etc.
Patents also expire after a certain period. Patents may also be pure crap that will not stand in court. As for covering developer time and lawyer time: why was this time spent in the first place? This is part of the overhead of the company. Why would you expect such activity to be profitable? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
