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I'm curious about cross licensing
Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Wednesday, November 21 2012 @ 11:35 AM EST
It seems to me that Moto's opening offer was for a "naked" license,
and offered to consider offsetting that against Microsoft's patents. Essentially
it was an invitation to negotiate a cross license.

Microsoft also seems to have made a statement that large companies should not
have to pay as much as smaller companies. That makes no sense, if they are
making profits from using other peoples patents everyone they should pay the
same, after all they elected not to do the original development work.

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I'm curious about cross licensing
Authored by: tknarr on Wednesday, November 21 2012 @ 12:51 PM EST

I think he's going to have to look at cross-licensing, though. It'd be manifestly unfair to set a rate for a company that isn't offering significant cross-licensing of patents based on the rates paid by companies that are cross-licensing a significant number of important patents. At the very least you have to consider cross-licensing in the context of backing that cross-licensing's contribution out of the rates (which would bump the rates up considerably). To me that means very much considering cross-licensing during the whole process, even if you're not going to factor potential cross-licensing of MS patents into their negotiations.

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