Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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Apple has already shown that they are willing to enrich LQMT through partnership by the fairly generous terms of the CIP agreement—LQMT gets to enjoy the fruits of countless millions of Apple R&D dollars in all fields of application except one. Any further money LQMT receives directly from Apple will come entirely on Apple's terms and no amount of cunning from our management in the face of Apple's limitless legal resources is going to force any more than what Apple decides to pay. On the contrary; LQMT management knows that if they truly managed to back Apple into some legal corner over the definition of CE use, the company would immediately be purchased for a minimum price and they would all wake up unemployed.

I'm still holding out hope that some months after Apple releases LM products and drives our market cap over $1B, they decide to branch out entirely from consumer electronics (into automotive/transportation/etc.) and make us a generous, friendly bid.