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I feel if the inventors can be inconvenienced for 7 years, the lawyers and their expert witnesses can be inconvenienced for a few weeks. However, I believe Delaware courts closed out of consideration for employees and jurors. I'm not sure what the jury room looks like in Delaware, but if it's anything like it is out here, I wouldn't want to be crammed into it during a pandemic.
Yeah, I don't see the 13 offering up settlement if they can put it off.
IDK. My friend's father died Monday. He had been on a respirator for six days. Two people I know in their 40s are still struggling months after recovering. I hope this thing mutates into something harmless soon.
It sounds like the courts are closed indefinitely.
I doubt the 13 will make an earnest attempt to settle now, with no court date on the horizon.
Maybe they're all hung over from celebrating your birthday.
Happy birthday, Rockie.
I hope they do settle. The vaccine trials are 2 year trials. (And people aren't moving the decimal two positions to the right when calculating the mortality rates).
Honestly, if your whole life revolves around the breakout board (as I'm suspecting with some of these peeps that keep popping up out of the blue), maybe you need to stop trading. Because most stocks have already run by the time they hit the breakout board. Normally, that's a good signal that you need to get out if you're holding.
The question about the contract between UOIP and Chanbond. I'm tired of peeps popping up out of nowhere and questioning everything. Especially now that we're private.
I have grown so weary of this question.
People have been hyping settlement all over this board since I bought in. I remain skeptical of a settlement before the bellwether trial. If the trial with Cox is scheduled in November, we're looking at another 7 or 8 months minimum.
Supposedly, he "connects with a jury." But I agree, Jennifer Ying clearly doesn't want to be the one on stage in the courtroom.
I'm really hoping Andrews sets a trial date in September or early October, then schedules the remaining trials in succession thereafter. I really don't see a need to wait until November. It's clear what the defense's motives are. Ying understands she is not up to the task of a jury trial.
Be prepared for an appeal once they do go to trial and lose. No reason Cox should only keep 99% of the profits from this stolen tech if there's a remote .01% to .05% chance they can keep 100%.
They want the trial in November because that's when their new hotshot attorney is available. They've been trying to get it scheduled in November since June.
The clinical trials for the vaccine are 2 year trials. I hope the court doesn't wait 2 years to reschedule. I know one person who is not working right now. Everyone else I know is still working. If people just wear a mask, wash their hands and keep a safe distance from others we could keep the economy going.
They've been kicking the can down the road for years.
I can't imagine what it feels like for the inventors either, or what it felt like for GB. The irony of his funeral happening on the same day as the pre-trial conference will be stuck in my mind forever.
What's that old adage, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time." Of course, who could have predicted a pandemic (except those who unleashed this sh*t on us of course, we won't go into that discussion), but God knows we wouldn't want to "inconvenience" the defense, who have been profiting off of stolen tech for several years, or their attorneys, who are making hundreds of dollars an hour, while the inventors have been... well... inconvenienced.
Thing is, it's probably safer in Delaware than it is in Texas or California right now. Delaware has 13,000 cases, California over 340,000 and Texas over 282,000. If I were a witness or an attorney, I'd be strapping on my mask and heading for Delaware.
I think Andrews is trying to avoid any verdict being overturned on appeal. In fact, I think Andrews has catered to the defense so much so that there won't be any possibility of appeal. You need to keep in mind that the defendants will go to trial and they will appeal, and they will wait until day 89 (they have 90 days). I think Andrews knows this, and there won't be any overturning of the ruling based on judicial errors. In fact, there will be no reason for the justices at the appeals court to hear the case based on judicial error. The only shot the 13 have at appeal is an excessive award.
No new trial date? Just "postponed?"
Four percent seems like an acceptable number to many people, though it's little over twice as high as the flu (about 1.5%). At 4%, that's just over 338 million deaths globally. Just over 23% of the 583,000+ deaths so far are in the U.S. The virus has mutated again since arriving here, becoming more contagious, though doctors are feeling more confident about treatment options. Of course, percentage of fatalities could go up, if the hospitals get overwhelmed and have to make the hard decisions about who gets treatment and who doesn't...
Personally, I have my own perspective about WHO's motivation from reading news reports. Contact tracing traced the A virus (the 3 day bug, before the first mutation to the more deadly B virus) back to Guangzhou in September 2019, near a U.S. NIH lab that was studying viruses until August 2019 when they were forced to shut down because they were having difficulty disposing of the viruses. I was watching traders in China on social media posting about this virus as early as November 2019.
One death is too many if it's one of my loved ones. But I never said we need to shut the entire economy down. People need to take it seriously and be sensible and more diligent. Why not err on the side of caution?
I read Stephen's letter. I think late September/early October, before flu season kicks in, would be the best bet for a reschedule. Hopefully, more people are taking this disease a bit more seriously and taking precautions and we see the curve flatten in the next month or so. My neighbor is an ER nurse. The hospital where she works is overwhelmed. They have a tent in the parking lot for patients who are not critical -- all patients, not just covid patients. Basically, if you can walk in and you're not bleeding out from a severe injury or in the throws of a heart attack or respiratory distress, you are directed to a tent in the parking lot for assessment because they have to distance the non-covid patients from the potential covid patients. They have had to take over OR rooms for covid patients because they've run out of isolation rooms.
So, contrary to what someone has been posting for more than a year now, they are no closer to settlement than they were when Chanbond filed suit in October 2015. The 13 have no intention to settle. They had no intention to schedule the additional trials that they were supposed to provide dates for 6 months ago.
The 13 want the trial in November because that's when Melsheimer is available.
You know this trial is likely to get postponed again. My hope is that Andrews finds a compromise -- late September to mid October at the latest. The problem is flu season starts in the fall, if we still have to deal with covid, the defense will just ask for another continuance and threaten appeal, which they're going to file anyhow on the 89th day after the verdict.
If court is in session in Delaware, Plaintiff is prejudiced by further delays.
And her vacation was in the middle of a pandemic, no? I hope Andrews takes that into consideration. If these fools aren't prepared for trial by now, they wont be prepared by November.
Right? They're worried about their own discomfort having to take precautions and quarantine, because they are and their time is so much more valuable than anyone else's. Two to four weeks quarantine is nothing compared with the long wait the inventors have had thus far.
I wonder if those who have kids will send their kids back to school in August after delaying trial another 3 months. Don't classes start around mid August?
They can put on their masks just like they do when they go to the supermarket or pick up takeout and get on a plane.
Cisco's paying anyhow. Cisco may be paying twice -- to indemnify Cox and when they get sued -- if they don't come to their senses.
I hope Cisco and Comm/Arris realize indemnification does not equal exoneration. They can still be sued.
Ah, okay, makes sense now. It sounds like the judge initially denied the motion because Wechselberger is Cisco's expert, not Cox's expert. But if Cox's expert relied on Wechselberger's testimony, and Cisco has agreed to indemnify Cox, then it sounds like Chanbond should be allowed to cross examine him at Cox's trial.
I didn't read the last filing. Is Chanbond asking that Wechselberger's testimony be excluded?
It's so bizarre that the 13 don't want their own witness to testify.
Basically, we still own the same number of shares; we just own shares in a private company now. Carter can't just decide to keep the money, or cut some shareholders in and stiff the rest of us, unless he wants to go to prison.
I consulted an attorney. We are a private company and still own shares. His summation, "It sounds like you are going to be a very wealthy woman when this settles."
Clearly, someone is having a difficult time believing Chanbond's legal team might know a bit more than he/she knows.