Pure Greed

The LG example is just pure greed, they have collected on their patent once and then want to collect on it again. I agree with most of the ideas of protecting IP (except software patents, which are getting out of hand) but if you have paid for the manufacturing costs, which include a cost for use of the patent, by extension you have paid it, companies can't go back and say I know you paid for it, but you're going to have to pay for it again because only the manufacture paid the royalties(well unless you are MS) this puts in jeopardy the whole supply chain. take a graphics card. Manafacturer makes chip (pays royalty) 2nd manufacturer puts chip onto board (pays royalty) Distributor buys boards (pays royalty) shops buys boards from distributor (pays royalty). Customer buys board from shop (pays royalty) Currently the royalties are paid upfront by the chip maker and spread across the supply chain. Any Ip holder who wants to track payment of royalties across 5 disparate entities needs their head examining.....lets see get a one off payment upfront of say £10 or spend £5 tracking and collecting £2 from 5 people.......you can't have your cake and eat it...even if you are call sara lee