Comments on: The Value of Nortel’s LTE Patents?

By: protosphere

protosphere — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:21:03 +0000

Patents are worth something to who ever maintains the Intellectual Property Rights. An asset worth around 63M a year according to the analyst over the next 10 to 15 years once LTE starts moving.

In all fairness to you, I was incorrect thinking they sold ALL of their LTE patents and intellectual property to NSN.

By: protosphere

protosphere — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:21:03 +0000

Patents are worth something to who ever maintains the Intellectual Property Rights. An asset worth around 63M a year according to the analyst over the next 10 to 15 years once LTE starts moving.

In all fairness to you, I was incorrect thinking they sold ALL of their LTE patents and intellectual property to NSN.

By: less

less — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:58:02 +0000

Yeah. Manage to get severance but spend it on attorneys to avoidf a full-blown Nortel at home. Ts,…

By: yes4aapl

yes4aapl — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:25:08 +0000

Talking about billions in Nortel's LTE IPR is hot air and pure BS
Nortel's used less than $500 mil for LTE development so far.
LTE in that shape and at this time is just buzzword and still in the early stages. Who ever takes it from Nortel has to invest another $1-2 bill in it.
That was why Nortel gave up on the other 4G technologies first and the LTE is the last nail to the 4G at Nortel.
Let's see. I am the stupid guy so what smart and educated teams of engineers know about Nortel's LTE?
Do they believe all the BS written in the articles publicly available and paid by Nortel?
There are specialized companies to assess real value of Nortel's LTE IPR.
Their reports are available for $5-10 k each.

By: painful_truth

painful_truth — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:45:42 +0000

Very interesting. So worldwide a governing body will track how many handsets are sold, and Nortel will get x % of the total number of worldwide handsets? Or will the serving carrier pay Nortel 1% for the handsets they sell on Nortel networks?

By: exnt_x_2

exnt_x_2 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:16:42 +0000

Ouch. Sounds like there was more than one.

Women are like that.

By: exnt_x_2

exnt_x_2 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:22:02 +0000

Well, thank God that lot's gone.

By: scalppeeler

scalppeeler — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:01:00 +0000

If you are a North American and have generations of family going back who have resided in North America here is what "more" there is
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Keep up with the joneses.
Vacations.
Holidays.
Nice Cars.
Savings
Money for your kids education.
Nice house with good property.
Clothes, Clothes and more Clothes.
Specialty items.

There's your "more". A partial list.

By: exnt_x_2

exnt_x_2 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:57:54 +0000

... and on the other side are a buncha sad sack ex-Nortel employees who can't figure out how to juggle a paltry $1,200/month.

The funny thing is, they are probably the inventors of these very valuable patents who'll never see a penny in royalties because they signed their ownership away.

Nortel screwed you coming and going.

Never give something away.

By: exnt_x_2

exnt_x_2 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:49:37 +0000

“They don't have much else than a home and food …”

This is an honest question. What more is there?