{"id":598,"date":"2012-07-18T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T21:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2016-03-21T14:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T22:31:31","slug":"a-patent-value-guide-to-research-in-motion-rimm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/economics\/a-patent-value-guide-to-research-in-motion-rimm\/","title":{"rendered":"A Patent Value Guide to: Research in Motion [RIMM]"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Fernando Torres, MSc<\/em><\/a>
\nA Patent is the right to exclude others from practicing an invention for a number of years, granted in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention. \u00a0The Value of a Patent depends on the profitability of the exclusive business opportunity the patent carves out for the owner.<\/p>\n

Research in Motion Ltd.<\/h3>\n
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  • Owns thousands of patents (issued and pending) mostly in Canada, Europe and the US.<\/li>\n
  • In 2011, acquired US$775 million portion of Nortel patents (US$4.5 billion) as part of a consortium<\/li>\n
  • Intangibles are US$3.37 billion on June 2, 2012 balance sheet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    Research in Motion\u2019s Patent Portfolio<\/h3>\n
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    • In the US, holds over 3,000 utility patents, design patents, or published applications.<\/li>\n
    • About one-third are designs or patents directly related to the well known Blackberry\u00ae handsets.<\/li>\n
    • Another portion deals with wireless communications.<\/li>\n
    • Yet another refers to touch screen phones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

      Research in Motion\u2019s Potential Patent Value<\/h3>\n
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      • The portfolio contains innovations for future applications, such as: Combining the use of capacitive and resistive touch sensors to improve accuracy, and LTE telecommunication technology.<\/li>\n
      • Includes systems and methods for instant messaging which are current technology.<\/li>\n
      • Yet has many more designs and patents only applicable to the legacy Blackberry\u00ae phones.<\/li>\n
      • Component patents in the portfolio could be used for litigation defense and offensive strategies.<\/li>\n
      • Typical patent litigation can cost $2 or $3 million with only 40% of cases recovering more than the cost of litigation.<\/li>\n
      • In the current environment, the RIM patents could be attractive litigation leverage for Google (Motorola mobility), Microsoft (Nokia), and Samsung and HTC (vs. Apple).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        \"BNN<\/h3>\n

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        IPmetrics’ Chief Economist, Fernando Torres MSc, interviewed today on BNN’s Business Day on the value of RIMM’s patent portfolio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,12,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xROl-9E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}