Great Patent Boom On The Wane
September 28, 2011
Is the Great Patent Boom over? Wireless patent troll InterDigital's bid to sell itself seems to be failing.
Google's $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility, following on the $4.5 billion sale of Nortel's patents, and the $9 billion valuation put on the value of Alcatel'-Lucent's 18,800 patents got the board of InterDigital all excited about the prospects of cashing in on its 1,300 patents.
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