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		kenjackson on Aug 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Responds To Microsoft’s "Gotcha": They’re D... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-03/samsung-is-said-to-... InterDigital’s engineers invented some of the technology for high-speed mobile phone networks now used by the world’s biggest handset makers. This is a link on some of their "breakthroughs" covered in their patent portfolio: http://www.interdigital.com/patents/category/patent_portfoli... "North" is the key word here. This could get crazy. I bet Nathan Myrvhold is laughing to the bank right now.

swores on Aug 4, 2011 [–]

The issue is that, rather than making judgements like you have done, reporters have been finding it easy to base suggestions on the numbers, suggesting the reason they would be worth more is that there are more of them.

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