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Re: GordonGecko post# 1405

Tuesday, 01/22/2008 3:52:05 PM

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:52:05 PM

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Re: Burst gets til 2/27/08 to answer Real's complaint - why?
There are any number of possible reasons why BRST/Hosie may have requested an extra 30 days to answer Real's complaint. Among them are:

(1) BRST and Real have agreed to a period of resumed, more intensive settlement negotiations; or as part of this, they need more time to work out the size of the damages/royalties claim in light of the prior negotiations, before they were suspended by stipulation duyring the AAPL litigation;

(2) BRST is considering asserting, or planning to assert, claims against other infringers, in addition to the counterclaim against Real -- a change from the one-at-a-time strategy followed up to now;

(3) Hosie's team actually needs more time to get up to speed, since they were not as much in the loop during the last round against AAPL as we'd thought, especially if the (presumed) negotiations with Real were not being conducted by Hosie;

(4) something to do with the DVR patents sort of excluded from the AAPL settlement, and a possible multiparty arrangement in one or another form (many of which forms have been speculated about on this board);

(5) Hosie has a vacation planned; or

(6) something else that we, out here in the peanut gallery (or the mushroom cellar), know nothing about.

And out here, we don't hav enough information to choose among the above.

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