> Which still leaves open the question of how many times you have to pay > to license the same patent for the same device, or whether you can Typically each time you buy a device indirectly (and you also pay indirectly for the patent office through taxes, the cost of patent lawsuits through product prices, insurance against patent lawsuits again through product prices) etc. > rearrange the bits in one licensed program? Don't know. Ask a patent lawyer
