Analysis: Google/Motorola could be peak of patent price spike

The bubble in mobile phone technology patent values may just have popped. Now that Google Inc has agreed to a $12.5 billion deal to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc — scooping up a trove of 17,000 phone-related patents to give itself some ground to defend its Android operating system — the most motivated buyer looks to be off the market.

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