...After seeing how trustees of bankrupt Nortel Networks scooped up $4.5 billion from a sale of wireless patents to a syndicate headed by Apple that also included Research in Motion, Ericsson, Sony, EMC and Microsoft in June, wireless communications developer InterDigital called in the bankers.
Since then, shares of the King of Prussia, Pa.-based engineering company have been flat, although during July and August, they nearly doubled. InterDigital is now valued around $1.95 billion, with enterprise value of $1.45 billion.
"We should expect a frenzy in patent sales," Jefferies analyst Peter Misek told International Business Times, because the proliferation of smartphones and tablets is making enabling technologies more valuable
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/263305/20111207/patents-s-progress-ip-land-grab-ipad.htm
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