Further, it is not just a question of the number of patents a company has, but of the quality and potential value to others of those patents.
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This includes the thousands of patents the company gained when it acquired Motorola Mobility last year.
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Misek points out that valuing patents is not as simple as counting the number of patents a company has.
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You could place your copyrights or patents into a company in, say, Bermuda, where there is no corporate income tax at all, then charge the company in Ireland for the use of those copyrights and or patents.
Company number two puts its own patents through the filter and comes up with a whole slew of patents as if that company wanted infringing.
In 2001 it was negotiating to buy the patents of a company called Jasmine Networks.
Based on an announcement by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), ZTE filed for the most PCT patents of any company worldwide in 2011 with 2, 826 filings.
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With the Supreme Court about to hear a landmark case on gene patents, Myriad Genetics, the company that owns the patents under scrutiny, is going on the offensive.
Why would any company hold its patents and other intellectual property in a California-based company (where licensing fees would be subject to both federal and state taxes) when they can just as easily hold the IP in lower-taxed countries?
Patents can bolster a company's strategic position, and they can also attract partners.
Products now include set-top boxes, home networking, mobile TV and a huge portfolio of technical patents -- the company controls licensing of the MP3 codec, for instance.
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Some specific practices such as "patent priveteering" -- when a company sells patents to trolls who don't manufacture anything and therefore can't be countersued -- also come under direct criticism.
It also occurs when a company simply transfers patents on its own to a troll.
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The company has several patents pending and the most interesting is around social interactions, he added.
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The split strained the arrangement, as the two men grappled with dividing the company's patents and brand.
For, along with the company and the patents, Google has also bought a series of tax losses.
Ericsson that would allow the Indian handset maker to use the Swedish company's patents for making cellular phones.
At present prices the market is putting very little on the company's patents, its knowhow, its powerful proprietary positions.
The company also said it had hired Boies to advise SCO on the company's patents, copyrights and intellectual property.
The company has two patents issued and five pending on its intellectual property.
The West Coast company bought telephony patents from BTG and used its strong, new position to negotiate with its competitor.
Patent consultant Florian Mueller said this was the first clear case of Google suing another company over its patents.
The company hands over patents to startups in exchange for equity stakes.
Committed to bringing contactless innovation to the mobile phone, the company has numerous patents pending in both U.S. and international patent offices.
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And Microsoft executives are hinting that trouble could be brewing--claiming last month that open-source products are violating 235 of the company's patents.
The initial public offering of RPX Corp, a San Francisco company that acquires patents to protect technology giants like Google and Cisco from patent lawsuits, marks the latest escalation in the patent wars.
The company holds several patents related to its CDMA technology and derives huge royalties from licensing the technology to manufacturers who earn revenue from the sale of CDMA-based equipment, including handsets made by Samsung, LG Electronics, and Motorola.
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The purchase gives Google access to more than 17, 000 of the company's valuable patents.
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