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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 09:08 PM EST

My question is meant to get people thinking about what Apple wants for it's patents vs what it's willing to pay!

Apple is willing to pay - at most - $1 per smartphone. However, there's lots of references like this article:

Apple offered to license its portfolio of patents to Samsung provided the Korean company was willing to pay on the order of $30 per smartphone and $40 per tablet.

So Apple wants to charge $30 per smartphone but only pay $1 per smartphone. And they don't want anyone actually valuing the patents - they just want a friendly Court to declare Motorola can only charge (at most) $1 per smartphone. They want Motorola to be held to such a decision by the Court but if the Court goes above $1 per smartphone Apple has made clear they won't abide by the Court's decision themselves.

So an essential patent for the product is only worth $1. But a patent on "rectangle with rounded corners" is worth $30.

RAS

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