re: Android will be a billion dollar business, for Microsoft

Oh nothing has changed in that regard. The only difference is the dollar figure. We should call it the patent multiple. Now, I would say that this would be an obvious P/E with price being price of patent and earnings being expected earnings directly attributed to said patent. And since companies (and analysts) love to strip shite out of earnings, I would say those earnings should be core earnings, not litigation related. I would however suggest that the denominator might often be very low, giving ridiculous ratios like 4,000,000,000/1. Therefore, I suggest we flip the ratio, call it patent yield, then adjust it to a reasonable percentage by multiplying by a million.