The Google/Motorola Mobility (MMI) acquisition (2011)[2] represents one of the largest and better-known intellectual property (IP)-driven acquisitions. The consensus around this US$12.5 billion deal at the time of the acquisition was that the deal had primarily been driven by MMI’s extensive IP portfolio, including about 17,000 issued patents and another 7,000 patent applications covering seminal mobile technologies. Many […]
In 2015, Instacart was already a successful U.S.-based Unicorn (a Unicorn is defined as a pre-exit startup with valuation in excess of $1 billion). At the time, Instacart had a valuation of $2 billion, and had already raised more than $250 million in funding. It also had no published patent filings, neither pending nor issued. […]
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