Thread: Google acquires Motorola Mobility
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Old 08-18-2011, 06:39 PM   #33
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I suspected that wasn't true before, but the Times has confirmed it since



Now I gather that at least one of the 2 motorolas (who knows which) has patents that are also related to multimedia and could be beneficial to Google's other products, but as to the current trolls, Palm's patents would trump. They're tailor-made to defend against both MS and Apple.

I've mentioned elsewhere that Google should use Motorola's patents to leverage a larger patent trove: that of all the major Android manufacturers. It would work by Google offering licensing of Motorola patents to each in exchange for them offering common licensing of their own patents that would help fill in the gaps of the overall portfolio and make each of them bulletproof. Getting those manufacturers to offer licenses to their competition would be a tough sell, but I'm not convinced motorola's patents alone are going to end this. After all, Apple already sued motorola. At the very least, they weren't intimidated by that portfolio.
I wonder what patents WebOS/HP has and whether they will go up for sale.
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