With this event in mind it seems if you want a patent license from apple you better have something they need/will lose in court over.

Several of the company's original investors have taken patent licenses, he said, but he would not name the companies.

The scramble for the patent licenses is on right now.

The Federal Circuit emphasized that use of past patent licenses must account for differences in the technologies and economic circumstances.

Both raw materials and patent licenses were expensive.

(Thus, the second question as to allocation between this and the ordinary income from patent licenses is not present.)

He returned with the patent license for the telephone, which he sold through most of California.

Academic researchers get free patent licenses and pay $500 for cells.

Then why did they offer Samsung a multitouch patent license?

Pay for a patent license to open source software.