silver jewelry Wall Street bankers and technology executives have been busy with their calculators in the wake of Google's $12.5 billion offer for Motorola Mobililty.

It's not just rich 63% premium valuations of their phone company, but how Google Motorola trove reasonable by pointing to the patent and its reflection on the price.

sterling silver bracelets Now other companies with large mobile patent portfolios, like Alcatel-Lucent, Kodak, Research in Motion and Nokia are being scrutinized as possible targets for licensing deals or full-on takeovers.

"The Motorola deal is seismic event" said summer · In the Dr, now patent consulting firm intellectual property lawyer before Inflexion point strategy. In patent now driving mergers and acquisitions, he said, and, driving up valuations.

The Google deal highlights the growing significance of patents in mobile and the steep prices that companies are willing to pay to keep them from rivals. As the Web gravitates to mobile and patent litigation rises, patent portfolios will only increase in value, analysts say.

The question is how much more valuable they will become.

"Before, no one really attach importance to patents. Patents are now becoming a new currency, "said yalishandayi, Alexander i. Poltorak, patent licensing, Chief Executive of general patent Corporation and law enforcement company. "I recently received a few calls from financial analysts and bankers wanted to know how to cherish a patent and what it means. "