| dallas said: Um, Motorola has been one of the intellectual leaders of telecom, and the consensus perception is that this will greatly help google's patent defense, as googorola can sue wp7 manufacturers like Nokia now. |
I thought the consensus perception was that Motorola was looking for a buyout, and used the threat of suing other Android OEMs (hence torching the Android ecosystem) as leverage to negotiate an awesome selling price way beyond their actual worth. Google isn't really being sued, and Motorola's patents can already defend Motorola without being owned by Google. The only effect I've seen is that Google sold/donated a handful of minor patents to HTC -- this doesn't seem to have done them any good.
Nokia was also an intellectual leader of telecom. Notice that Apple settled with them last year (and is now paying royalties to Nokia), but they continue to fight Motorola aggressively in courts across the world. It leads me to speculate that Nokia's patent war chest my be considerably stronger than Moto's.
