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To: sylvester80 who wrote (34681)	9/5/2013 6:39:35 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

"They still have all the patents" They have all of Nokia's patents, but I am sure they are no longer licensed to use Qualcomm and Samsung and Motorola's patents in handsets. Almost certainly, by assigning those patent licenses to MSFT, they gave up their rights to use them.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (34681)	9/6/2013 11:36:31 AM
From: The_Net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Nokia may still end up making hardware sooner rather than later, and it may even go so far as to start producing mobile devices again in 30 months, by January 2016… More interestingly, there is no restriction on Nokia itself using the name on non-mobile devices of its own from the day after the deal comes into effect. And after December 31, 2015, Nokia will be free to make its own mobile devices once again, under its name, if it so chooses… There is a lot still left at Nokia that can make its way into a mobile device or a gadget of another sort. Through all of Nokia’s thousands of layoffs, closure of Symbian and adoption of Windows Phone, the company has kept plugging away at new technologies and thoughts about how it might apply them, and in an optimistic frame of mind, this could point to some exciting things:… “There will be all kinds of devices over time, and it might not be what you think of as handsets today,” noted David Wood, the co-founder of Symbian who is no longer with the company. “Who knows what will be interesting in the longer timescale? With innovations around wearable computing like Glass from Google, Nokia may want to get into some of this eventually.”… http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/03/nokias-licensing-its-name-to-microsoft-but-its-free-to-keep-building-hardware-and-could-even-dial-up-to-mobile-devices-again-by-january-2016/