Patent Licensing
Comments primarily discuss licensing patents as a preferable alternative to litigation, exclusion, or competition in tech industries, often suggesting it could resolve conflicts more efficiently than other approaches.
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They could have just licensed the patents?
Couldn't they just license the patent?
That's what patents are for. If Samsung is too cheap to license them then they don't get.
That sounds like a perfect scenario for patent licensing.
Maybe they have a patent they can license to Phillips and other large manufacturers.
They could have just licensed the technology!
Agreed. Tech companies with patents might be more interested in licensing their technology to others for a fee.
Patents don't necessarily mean nobody else can use it. For example, he could license the technology which means people have to pay to use it.
There's a whole precedent for this with FRAND (Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) licensing. It's really common for standards.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat...
Why do you think it should be illegal to refuse to license your patented technology to another company?