Still, "reasonable" can be widely interpreted, and take another many years to settle if the courts are involved. Applying a basic sniff test, if all patents ha

Still, "reasonable" can be widely interpreted, and take another many years to settle if the courts are involved. Applying a basic sniff test, if all patents had to be licensed for reasonable fees to competitors, there would be almost no sense in having patents in the first place. Additionally terms like "blocking patents" in terms of intellectual property barriers to entry in a marketplace would also likely not need to exist. IANAL, but I do believe from my own experience that Apple can effectively decide to not make their patents available to HTC if they so choose in this case.