Lets make on thing clear. They are not selling the patents per se.

Nokia still holds the intellectual property of them. What they do is they license the patents to these companies that seek way to profits from them, usually doing it very aggressively. Nokia and the holder will then share the cash in what ever way they decided on the contract.


Nokia has used BY FAR the most to R&D of any mobile company, so as far as i'm concerned let them patent troll. We are after all talking about actual GSM, antenna, manufacturing tooling, LTE etc patents, not about shape of a icon. Nokia can/should concentrate on making phones, let Sisvel and others do the patent trolling.