Alca-Lu Patent Portfolio Could Be Worth $9B, More Than Company - DailyFinance

Alcatel-Lucent (NYS: ALU) has lost 30 percent of its stock market value since reporting sales figures last week that failed to meet analysts estimates. The company, which was valued at $100 billion at its peak, is now worth $7.8 billion, having made continuing losses since it acquired Lucent in 2006. However, Bloomberg revealed that Alcatel-Lucent's patents could be worth double the $4.5 billion that Nortel Networks' licences sold for in a bankruptcy auction in June.