Large Portfolio of Former Nokia Patents Put on Market

Feb. 7, 2018, 10:48 PM UTC

About 1,600 Nokia Corp. telecommunications-related patents have been put up for sale as the company continues to trim its intellectual property holdings.

A group of undisclosed individual and private equity investors, called WSOU Investments LLC, retained Aqua Licensing LLC, a patent advisory and transaction firm, to sell the large telecommunications patent portfolio, the firm said in a Feb. 7 statement. The portfolio covers technologies developed by the Finnish company’s units such as Nokia Technologies, Nokia Networks, and telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, which Nokia acquired last year, the firm said.

Nokia has assigned patents to WSOU in recent months, Patent and ...

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