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Re:Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal by DannyBee on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:25PM (#13186813)
That's probably completely wrong. The patent landscape has changed dramatically in the past 5 years. The likelihood they could extract significant sums of money from these patents drops every day.
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Re:Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal by tptacek on Thursday December 15, 2016 @08:27PM (#13190343)
I'd really love to read the summary of the patent landscape that explains that.
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Re:Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal by tclAmockingbird on Thursday December 15, 2016 @11:26PM (#13191059)
This might be a good starting place, "Software Patents: A One-Year Review of Alice v. CLS Bank" (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2619388)
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Re:Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal by bduerst on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:59PM (#13189909)
Like I said, depends on who you ask. The point isn't the amount but that some people value it for the IP, not net income.
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