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Originally Posted by kartu
It's not quite like that.
For instance Samsung or Motorola, or Nokia, who hold key hardware patents for number of core mobile technology, can not deny others access to the patents or ask for "too high price". (since the patents have become standard)
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If they hold the patents, what would prevent them from doing so? Obviously it wouldn't be in their commercial interests to do so (eg Apple are Samsung's biggest customer), but I don't believe there would anything to prevent them should they wish to do so, would there?