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" ... Scott Morton: This is a place where economists part company with most others. The competitive price for Qualcomm’s SEPs at any moment in time is a number, a dollar number. Because I am a skilled arithmetician ( ;-) ) I can generate that same number by expressing it as a percentage of a chip or a percentage of a phone–all I have to do is vary the percentage. For example, if a court determines that the correct royalty is $.50, that could be 2.5% of a $20 chip or it could be 0.1% of a $500 handset. There is no reason the percentage rate needs to stay the same when moving between the handset and the chip. Useful technology should be paid what it is worth in order to generate incentives for innovation. Imagine I had invented a fantastic new corkscrew design and I licensed it for $20 a unit. The fact that that the entire production cost of the corkscrew is $1 does not prevent my idea from being worth $20 and the percentage royalty being 2000%. ... "