A federal court in Seattle issued a ruling Thursday that could help settle the question of just how much a company can expect to reap from standards-essential patents.



From AllThingsD:

Motorola had been seeking in excess of $4 billion in the case, which centered around patents related to the the H.264 video standard and the 802.11 wireless standard.

In making its determination, the court noted that there are some 92 different entities with patents essential to 802.11 networking. If each of them got the 1.15 percent to 1.73 percent royalty that Motorola wanted, the cost of wireless networking alone would exceed the price of the Xbox Microsoft was using it in.

  Court Denies Motorola the Billions It Wanted From Microsoft for Standards-Essential Patents