When Nokia finally completed the sale of its devices business to Microsoft earlier this year, its infrastructure arm, the former NSN, clearly took the lead role in the new business. However, some of the most interesting comments at the time emerged from Advanced Technologies, the unit which now houses R&D and patent licensing. Some observers, including the European competition commissioner, had expressed fears that this outfit would be a thinly disguised patent troll, once the handsets and their underlying IPR were separated. But Nokia was adamant that it would not just be trying to squeeze more money out of its vast stockpile of patents, but would continue to be an R&D “powerhouse”. This would be necessary to influence standards, to…