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Unless this is 1 cent per phone they are talking about, it's a stupid idea. Last I gathered, the damages went down to under $100 million. If I were them I'd rather just pay that much if I lost the trial, than to pay them for the entire life of Android.

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"Google proposed paying Oracle 0.5 percent of Android revenue on one patent until it expires this December and 0.015 percent on a second patent until it expires in April 2018."

It's only for six more years and 0.015% could very well be much less than $100M. In fact, it might be less than Oracle's legal fees.