Given both Samsung [1] and BlackBerry [2] have denied this it sounds more like market manipulation to me.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/14/7549547/samsung-no-plans-to-buy-blackberry" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/14/7549547/samsung-no-plans-t...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-14/blackberry-climbs-on-report-samsung-made-acquisition-proposal.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-14/blackberry-climbs-o...</a>
After the iPhone launched in 2007 BlackBerry had years to respond and they totally failed to. If they had just admitted defeat as late as 2010 the company could have been sold for tens of billions (I assume).
It would be interesting to see what strategy SS would take with the patent trove. I'm sure it's not about the contracts with the few gov'ts which insist on having a blatant gateway for comms interception or the few lucrative stodgy corps who favor BB.<p>Who would SS go after with this trove, and if they did, do the others hit back with theirs?