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They say it like it's a bad thing.

Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 12:44 PM EDT

The courts have repeatedly ruled that until the patent in invalidated it is
assumed valid and royalties are payable.
If these contracts have a renewal clause, or are tied to a specific product then
upon expiry or new model they will not be renewed. The cases still before the
courts are interesting, they would pay for the past infringement, but nothing
going forward.

There is a lot of speculation about what is in many of these 'secret' deals.
The patents maybe pooled with a few hardware patents tossed in for good measure
so they would still continue at an inflated per patent rate. They may include
cross licensing deals so they may now pay more, now that they are not being held
up as a partner.

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