Hi Look,
I don't have that information. Perhaps fivestar, who has been more closely in contact with SOLM, can shed some light on this matter. My calculations are based on the relatively conservative premise that the suit will cover all, but only, the toy. hybrid vehicles sold in the US, which was about 500,000 over a year ago, and is now probably around 700,000 +. My assumption is that all these use some version of the SOLM technology. SOLM is claiming triple damages, which must mean that they believe there was an NDA violated.
What I am really curious about and also don't know is how the suit might effect the approx. 500,000 + additional toy hybrids sold in markets outside the US, which presumably incorporate the same technology. I would think that although these would not be directly involved with the current suit, which names Toy USA as the defendant, they could be subject to a second international trial under patent treaty laws, assuming the US trial goes SOLM's way. Such a win might well also garner additional royalties going forward for hybrids in foreign markets.
Addison Wiggin, in the nl teaser linked in #0004, estimated the world market for this hybrid technology at $100 billion.
Of course, Toyota could just end its misery (nothing is more horrible than being a grown man attacked by a swarm of hungry misquitos) by settling, in which case all that would be moot but we would swiftly become wealthy.
Sorry I can't give you a more specific answer to your questions.
