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by user-id 5506 days ago
30% is a lot more than the 0.575% Lodsys is asking for licensing.

http://goo.gl/Q1gnn+

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0.5% doesn't seem much, but if they succeed in this, many more other patent trolls will come out of the woodwork and all will demand a small percentages. Lots of these quickly add up, with 100 patent trolls parasiting on your App, you lose already half the profit.