drdc (canada) selects mst (mtsxy) technology, page-41

Seen the price NORtel administrators got for the patents? Nortel went down in 2009 and sold their tangible assets for 3.1 billion. Google offered 900mill for the patents but the administrators asked around and a bidding war began. It concluded last week with a consortium including Apple, Microsoft, Sony et al paying $4.5 billion for the patents -so the patents ended up being worth more than the rest of the company combined.

Now there are some numbers guys - recent numbers on the worth of key patents.