Google Wants Huge Royalties Every Time Apple Sells An iPhone (GOOG, AAPL)

As Google is set to acquire Motorola and the company's 17,000 patents, it's planning on asking for the same 2.25% maximum royalty per unit that Motorola is already demanding for every iPhone sold, reports Philip Elmer-DeWitt of CNN.Apple obviously takes issue with this, and so does entrepreneur and lobbyist Florian Müller. He told CNN that "2.25% of the selling price of the product as a whole is absolutely out of step with the concept of [fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory use] and with industry practice."A 2.25% maximum royalty might not sound so bad (we thought it was small), but Elmer-DeWitt points out that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute maintains 117,964 patents registered to 175 companies. If each company demanded the same 2.25% every time a company wanted to build a device that worked with another company's technology, the industry would "grind to a halt."Things will get very interesting once Google's acquisition of Motorola is officially complete.Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »See Also:THE APPLE INVESTOR: Apple's Mac Is The Only PC Brand Making Progress In EuropeGoogle: We Promise Not To Be Evil With Motorola PatentsApple Wants To Rewrite European Patent Laws

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