The Nortel patent purse had over 6,000 patents, but InterDigital has over 8,800. If the winning bid on Nortel was $4.5 billion, InterDigital should be well north of $5 billion.
Not quite sure where this logic comes from. Surely they're only valuable if they're relevant and strategically useful?
The issue is that, rather than making judgements like you have done, reporters have been finding it easy to base suggestions on the numbers, suggesting the reason they would be worth more is that there are more of them.
The only reason for the high price of Nortel patents was because all those big name companies got involved. If it's only Google and Apple the price for these patents might be much lower, maybe half. It all depends how Apple and Google want to play witch each other though.
Not quite sure where this logic comes from. Surely they're only valuable if they're relevant and strategically useful?