Originally Posted by kidspud:
“It that true? Some of the articles have implied that the purchase by google included 17,000 patents, and that 10,000 patents are going to Lenovo, although google will still hold license to use them.
That would mean google paid over $10B for 7,000 patents. It would be nice to know how long it will take to google to get their money back in license fees?
Makes you wonder why they bought it in the first place.”
“It that true? Some of the articles have implied that the purchase by google included 17,000 patents, and that 10,000 patents are going to Lenovo, although google will still hold license to use them.
That would mean google paid over $10B for 7,000 patents. It would be nice to know how long it will take to google to get their money back in license fees?
Makes you wonder why they bought it in the first place.”
It's not about getting the money back it's about being able to defend yourself against Apple.



