Thankfully,
Our Original U.S. Brand Name "Motorola", Kept Ownership To Most Of It's (24,000) Patents, Before Giving The Mobile Portion Away In (2012.) To Google! And Then, Google Passing It On To Lenovo In (2014.) Info from 07/28/2015.
Motorola Moto X Style is announced:
A stylish Android flagship at an exceptional price!
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A stylish Android flagship at an exceptional price!
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| Firstly, Make no mistake, everything that Lenovo is, has come straight from America! (IBM) The American Company, sold there computer business to Lenovo in (2005.) And that has made Lenovo a better company ever since their founding. And now, The American company Motorola Mobility/Google, has sold their Cell Phone business to Lenovo, which are using the technology that came from The U.S.A. And if you go to Lenovo's website, you will actually see their advertised slogan as if they were the ones who invented Motorola! But that's obviously (NOT) True! And this posting will help clear that up right to the main and last point... |
Motorola Solutions CEO On The Google-Motorola Merger, Patents And Brand Google’s August announcement that it would acquire Motorola Mobility surprised many people in the telecom industry. Among them: Motorola Solutions Chief Executive Greg Brown. The news was of particular interest to Brown since he served as CEO of the old Motorola, Inc. from Jan. 2008 until the company split in two pieces this past January. Since then, Brown has been CEO of Motorola Solutions, an independent, publicly traded company that inherited Motorola’s enterprise-focused businesses of two-way radios, bar-code scanners and wireless broadband networks. (For a look at Motorola Solutions’ future, see my magazine story, The Other Motorola.) Motorola Mobility was the other company created by Motorola, Inc.’s split. It took over the company’s consumer cellphone and set-top box divisions. It was the timing of Google’s announcement that startled Brown. “It was relatively quick,” he noted in an interview at Motorola Solutions’ Schaumburg, Ill. headquarters. Like Motorola Solutions, Motorola Mobility was formed in January, so Google’s news came just seven months after Mobility was established. Brown may have been surprised, but he said he understood the merger’s logic. The deal will give Google — and the many companies that produce devices based on its Android mobile platform — access to Motorola Mobility’s 24,000 patents. The common interpretation of the swap is that the patents will help Google and its Android partners defend themselves against lawsuits from competitors like Apple and Microsoft. Motorola Mobility, in turn, will gain financial stability from being part of Google. Brown appeared to agree with that view. “Mobility’s attractiveness to Google was primarily patent-driven,” he said. “The combination makes great sense.” Brown’s support for the acquisition stems, in part, from the fact that he doesn’t foresee any drawbacks for Motorola Solutions. Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility share two things: intellectual property and their iconic brand name. The allocation of those assets entailed a lot of thought and negotiation before Motorola, Inc.’s split, according to Brown. Fortunately for Motorola Solutions, both agreements were structured to withstand a change in control from a merger or acquisition. That means Motorola Solutions will maintain access — through a cross-license — to Motorola Mobility’s 24,000 patents, even after Google acquires Mobility. The cross-license is non-exclusive and viable only for the lives of the patents but should shield Motorola Solutions from future patent-related lawsuits. Brown isn’t overly worried about patent suits, anyway. Motorola Solutions’ sale of its wireless network infrastructure business to Nokia Siemens Networks earlier this year ratcheted down the company’s risk, said Brown. Most of the telecom industry’s big patent fights focus on the cellular and wireless technologies that power consumer cellphones and tablets and the networks that support them, not the walkie-talkies and business-centric computing devices Motorola Solutions makes. Motorola Solutions will also keep the Motorola name regardless of what Google decides to do with it. (Options for Google include keeping the name, winding it down or combining it somehow with Google’s own brand.) Motorola Mobility technically owns the name but Solutions has an exclusive license that is designed to act in perpetuity. Motorola Solutions simply needs to stay out of Mobility’s core market of consumer gadgets, much as it has since January. “We could make a [consumer] cellphone but can’t call it Motorola,” explained Brown. “Google could call its handsets Motorola or use the bat-wing [logo]. Whatever they do won’t affect what we do.” Brown also views Google’s $12.5 billion offer for Motorola Mobility as a sign that Motorola, Inc.’s split was the right move. “It reaffirms, more than anything, exactly why we separated the company,” he said. “There would be no way to get that value unlocked by keeping all these assets together.” | Google Keeps ‘Vast Majority’ Of Motorola Mobility Patents In Sale To Lenovo Motorola Mobility (has been) "Sold" to Lenovo, in a deal worth $2.91B. Google is divesting itself of the handset division it purchased for $12.5B in 2011, but it will keep some of the assets — including patents. “Google will maintain ownership of the vast majority of the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio, including current patent applications and invention disclosures,” says Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside. “As part of its ongoing relationship with Google, Lenovo will receive a license to this rich portfolio of patents and other intellectual property. Additionally Lenovo will receive over 2,000 patent assets, as well as the Motorola Mobility brand and trademark portfolio.” When Google purchased Motorola Mobility, much of the discussion swirled around whether it was buying it simply to own a hardware pipeline on which to deliver its Android juice — or whether it wanted patents for protection. The answer, as is typical, lay somewhere in the middle. Though the Motorola patents never turned out to by incredibly effective winning solo battles against Google’s patent enemies, they did work as a part of a larger tactic which has seen Google aligning itself via cross-licensing with OEMs like Samsung. One segment of the statement by Woodside was interesting: ------------- Since being acquired by Google in 2012, Motorola has transformed itself, focusing on solving real consumer problems and providing amazing experiences built on a foundation of pure Android. The result has been Moto X, Moto G, and a reinvigorated Droid line. Together, these devices have won over consumers and critics alike and helped re-establish the Motorola brand around the world. ------------ Indeed, Google’s purchase and investments in Motorola did raise the flagging manufacturer’s profile significantly over the intervening years. They have several well-received smartphones on the market and have made a lot of noise about technology innovations in wearable computing and DARPA-think-tank-director hires. Google sold off several aspects of its initial Motorola purchase including its cable box business. And it managed to leverage the patents — which Google valued at $5.5B — to at least some positive outcome. So, while the monetary ‘wins’ or ‘losses’ here are one for the bean counters to figure out, the strategic victories for Google may actually be fairly strong. According to some maths from analyst Benedict Evans, Google’s total outlay may have been closer to $7.15B than $12B — the divestitures, retention of patents and the sale price would cut the plain monetary loss down further to under $2B. There is now a renewed Android vendor on the market peddling Google’s OS, in the care of Lenovo, the logistics firm that made IBM’s old enterprise business the biggest consumer computer retailer in the world. And it has some new cross-licensing agreements on patents — the majority of which it gets to keep. And, with the purchase of Nest, it has a fresh young hardware company with a design focus and a set of high-profile talent. “As a side note, this does not signal a larger shift for our other hardware efforts,” noted Google CEO Larry Page in an announcement . “The dynamics and maturity of the wearable and home markets, for example, are very different from that of the mobile industry. We’re excited by the opportunities to build amazing new products for users within these emerging ecosystems.” It may look bad in the raw math, but may not turn out so bad for all parties when the pieces settle into place. |
Lastly,
I will say this much, considering all the superior advanced technology that came from the "Original" Motorola Company, and with what amount that Google has done with the Moto X. & Moto G., and then, with what Lenovo brings to the table from itself as well. So, with that being said, I surely do believe that I will continue to stick with the (Motorola-Brand) regardless of the Chinese Lenovo company that acquired it. Because the solid in-tell, is still (All) American! and and is very reasonable in "Price!" as well as with Outstanding Quality! And to what you actually get for the money. But at least, I give Lenovo some credit for trying to beef-it up a bit., Or, to enhance the current features of the long ago established-patents. So right now, when it go's on the market next Month of September, you will get The Moto X Style with a camera of (21 Mega Pixels), and with a front face 5MP. with led to catch your face/selfie. And up to a total of between (64 GB's. to 128 GB's.) "I'm like Wow!" Aint no way that I would even consider ever wanting to take a (Bite) out of Apple! Nor, I would not even be singing a note to Samsung either! I will continue to be a (Moto-Man) for quite some time...
I will say this much, considering all the superior advanced technology that came from the "Original" Motorola Company, and with what amount that Google has done with the Moto X. & Moto G., and then, with what Lenovo brings to the table from itself as well. So, with that being said, I surely do believe that I will continue to stick with the (Motorola-Brand) regardless of the Chinese Lenovo company that acquired it. Because the solid in-tell, is still (All) American! and and is very reasonable in "Price!" as well as with Outstanding Quality! And to what you actually get for the money. But at least, I give Lenovo some credit for trying to beef-it up a bit., Or, to enhance the current features of the long ago established-patents. So right now, when it go's on the market next Month of September, you will get The Moto X Style with a camera of (21 Mega Pixels), and with a front face 5MP. with led to catch your face/selfie. And up to a total of between (64 GB's. to 128 GB's.) "I'm like Wow!" Aint no way that I would even consider ever wanting to take a (Bite) out of Apple! Nor, I would not even be singing a note to Samsung either! I will continue to be a (Moto-Man) for quite some time...
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