'The lawyers representing the shareholders are much smarter and more experienced than I am, so they have a handle on this.'
So that ridiculous complaint filed in a California state court and signed by a dude who describes himself as a real estate agent and is nott even listed on the law firm website is the evidence of a smart and experienced lawyer?
LOL. No, I think you are prolly better AND more experienced than to have done anything like that. Give yourself some credit.
And, as you state, the money has already been there and there is no obstacle in place - the state court joke case does not have a TRO issued (and it lacks jurisdiction over anyone butt Billy and even Billy is likely to file a general demurrer and/or deny being in he SoCal state court's jurisdiction).
So the situation is already at (b) in your bifurcation.
Also, go to the USPTO website and look up the file wrappers for the Chanbond patents. You will see numerous disclaimers filed in July. These are essentially irreversible disclaimers, and no sentient patent counsel would allow these to be filed unless DaMunny had already been received. You will not that EACH of the 13 parties have disclaimers directed to them. Thus all 13 must have paid before anyone repping Chanbond would have taken the substantially irrevocable step of filing those disclaimers.
