high value on high-tech patents established in Nortel portfolio buy

Nortel IP Sale Pegs High-Tech Patent Value at $750K Apiece

When the dust settled on Nortel's auction of about 6,000 patents in its intellectual property (IP) portfolio last week, a consortium that included Apple, Microsoft, and RIM, among others, paid $4.5 billion to take title to that collection. Do the math: 4.5 billion divided by 6,000 works out to...