If you can’t beat them, kill them, or at least make it very hard to do business. That was the apparent motto of Apple’s legal department in the past but the courts are getting more savvy to “fair use” (FRAND – fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) and patent trolls.
Fair and Reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing is being mandated in an effort to stop company ‘A’ unreasonably preventing company ‘B’s’ use of patented rights.