How many patents did Google get from Motorola?
The deal, then, gave Google a chance to counter-attack or at least hold its ground thanks to Motorola’s intellectual property, which reportedly amounted to 17,000 issued patents and 7,500 applications.
Why did Motorola and Google fail?
The first reason is Google only bought Motorola Mobility for its patents, not for manufacturing. Because, Motorola had a massive patent library that can be used defensively against Apple’s patent attacks on Android licensees which makes the Android or Google’s customer worried.
What happened with Google and Motorola?
Well this is unexpected. Google is selling Motorola, the iconic handset maker it bought for $12.5 billion in May of 2012, to Chinese PC maker Lenovo for $2.91 billion. It put Google in the awkward position of owning a company that competed with all of the other makers of Android smartphones.
How much did Google lose on Motorola?
After accounting for the $2.91 billion sale price, Google spent $4.24 billion for the rest of Motorola’s business. However, when you take into account that Motorola has $2.4 billion in deferred tax assets, the purchase price drops to a measly (by Google’s standards) $1.6 billion.
Who owns Motorola patents?
Google
Google Keeps ‘Vast Majority’ Of Motorola Mobility Patents In Sale To Lenovo. Motorola Mobility is being sold to Lenovo, in a deal worth $2.91B.
Who bought Motorola patents?
Google acquired Motorola not long after losing out in a bidding war for more than 6000 patents from Nortel in 2011.
What went wrong at Motorola?
Motorola’s problem was that it was a hardware technology company, but from the mid-2000s it was software driving the mobile phone business. Here Motorola was weak – their phone’s interface was seen as clunky compared to its rivals, and their smartphones dithered between Linux and Windows-based operating systems.
Who is owner of Motorola?
Lenovo
Motorola Mobility/Parent organizations
On January 29, 2014, Google CEO Larry Page announced that pending closure of the deal, Motorola Mobility would be acquired by Chinese technology company Lenovo for US$2.91 billion (subject to certain adjustments). On October 30, 2014, Lenovo finalized its purchase of Motorola Mobility from Google.
Why did Google buy Motorola and sell it?
Google realised the danger this posed. If Samsung decided to leave Android and develop its own OS (which it was trying to do) or partner with a different OS, Google would be left in a loss. Acquiring Motorola allowed it to increase its interference in the hardware manufacturing market and lessen Samsung’s threat.