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Originally Posted by Graham
Presumably there comes a point where a company decides that it will cost them less paying out possible licensing fees than coughing up in advance for a patent portfolio (factoring in the potential return from that portfolio).
Graham
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Yes.
But patent licensing terms don't have to be friendly...
...and could wipe out all the economic advantage of using android instead of licensing something else.
(That is what HTC is facing, at a minimum.)