>Do you believe they couldn't use the Motorola patent portfolio against those companies if they wanted to?

Huh, haven't they been using them against Apple and MS? MS now pays them for H.264 patents, though considerably less than what demanded, and Motorola got convicted and fined by a jury for FRAND abuse.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/09/05/judge-slaps-motoro...