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I'm curious what you consider (or believe other people consider) abusive about that?

• wmf 14y ago
  For example, all of the H.264 patents except Motorola's are licensed for pennies, which is something like 0.25% of the cost of an Xbox. But Motorola wants ~2% for their few H.264 patents. A complex product infringes hundreds of patents; if each one has a 2% royalty then the total royalties exceed the price of the product.
  • zmmmmm 14y ago
    That's certainly an argument that could be had but Google's position on it is not in the document you cited. It specifies that the maximum royalty Google will ever ask for a standards essential patent is 2%. Whether Google approves of asking for 2% in the case you are referring to is not clear to me. At this point the law suit is way past the phase of negotiating licensing fees and I doubt very much that it is possible to rewind it back to there even if Google wanted to (which I don't see why they would; they know that Apple is intent on banning their devices - Apple's goal is nothing less than the complete destruction of Android as a product, not negotiating reasonable licensing fees).