Phones not #patents should be #Nokia’s salvation - FT.com:

It was a meeting that helped to shape the fledgling mobile phone industry and its repercussions are still playing out nearly three decades later.

In November 1984, a Nokia patent engineer called Shubh Suri entered a conference room in New York’s Chrysler building tasked with helping the Finnish company break into the US. Across the table was a Texan attorney representing Tandy Corporation, which was interested in setting up a joint-venture involving Nokia’s groundbreaking portable phones.