Carl Icahn In Talks With Motorola About Its Massive Patent Portfolio
July 22, 2011 at 12:05 PM EDT
In the land of mobile, patents have never been more crucial. He with the most patents has the most power. Period. In the last few months alone we’ve seen Apple and Samsung duke it out , Apple and HTC take it to the mat , Google chat it up with InterDigital , and I won’t even start on Nortel . Billionaire investor Carl Icahn — notorious for pumping money into companies and then bossing them around — has taken quite the interest in Motorola Mobility ’s patent portfolio.