Big patent portfolio doesn't mean innovative products at all. IBM had
the biggest patent portfolio for decades and just a few innovative
products at the same time. The company should be able not only to
finance the research and apply for patents, but also execute on these
patents. Which not always the case.

By the way, Motorola shipped a lot of innovative production in it's
history (like first cell phone, Iridium system etc.)

On Aug 16, 3:37 pm, mP <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/08/15/is-google-buying-motorola-for-...
>
> Or Google really wants the 17,000 patents and 7,000 patents pending
> that Motorola has assembled over the years, including what CEO Sanjay
> Jha recently described as having
> <<
>
> Firstly to keep things simple and reasonable lets suppose most of the
> patents are for electronics that are components of mobiles. In general
> every phone is constructed mostly with commodity parts from suppliers
> with a few custom components developed by Motorola themselves. How can
> these "bits" lead to so thousand of patents. Surely if other
> manufacturers are buying the same commodities they too, are developing
> similar custom bits  which must overlap the efforts of M.
>
> With so many patents they must have many unique products with many
> unique abilites...where are they ?

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