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 ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
