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You say this as if there aren't deals between patent holders and platforms that are based on revenue percentages.



Patents are quite different from infrastructure. And critical patents are normally kept from charging very high rates by multiple mechanisms.


There are infrastructure agreements which function on revenue basis too.

Critical patents have some limitations, but only because of agreements which were reached in the establishment of specific standards.

If you own the IP, you get to decide how you're compensated for it.




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