American taxpayers will in effect be paying the patent owner, in the form of a tax expenditure: Section 8 of the settlement agreement, at page 7, seems to posit

American taxpayers will in effect be paying the patent owner, in the form of a tax expenditure: Section 8 of the settlement agreement, at page 7, seems to position the patent owner to take a tax deduction for the purported value of the license that it "gave" to GNOME.