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It is rumored that Microsoft makes as much as $24 per Android device sold, as payment for its patents used in the Android operating system. Even smartphone manufacturers cross-license Microsoft intellectual property (IP). Based on these patents, in 2013 Samsung paid Microsoft over a billion dollars in royalty payments. In 2014, it was estimated that Microsoft made $2 billion.

Microsoft has never revealed the depth of its patent licensing, but in 2014 the Chinese Ministry of Commerce completed an antitrust investigation. The regulators published their results on the Internet, stating that Microsoft owned 310 Android-implementing patents.

Note: The numbers in this sidebar may not be independently verified but have shown up in court documents over the years.