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[JJCook]

Nate:

If you go back and try to find the instances when one of the infringing Big Boys resolved litigation from a patent owner via a buyout, you will have to dig pretty long and hard.
The Apples and Activisions and HPs simply don't have it in their DNA to buy out the small fish.
As you well said, a settlement usually comes (if at all) on the steps of the courthouse minutes before the final hearing.
Buy a buyout is rare and, while not unheard of, is IMO probably not on the radar here.
Clearly, settlement is always on the table.
GL JJ