I see someone was nice enough to leave me the following message on another board. I would agree with almost all of it. I guess the only thing that was left out was that this was indeed good for the company and for DM, unfortunately every so-called "positive result" lowered the PPS. We went all the way down to .025 as a result of these "victories".
So I guess it boils down to whether one is interested in "winning" or making money. I fall into the latter group and, acccordingly, see each of these events as a loss to shareholders. But that's just me.
"Glad you asked...was thinking about that yesterday.
TX 7 we had no Markman and resulted in 7 license settlements.
CO 19, we had settlements/licenses before the MH, after the hearing but before the ruling, and ditto after the ruling for a total of 19 out of 26, and we've had 2 licenses, maybe only 1, don't remember for sure, without litigation...1 for sure after the ruling.
Heck, even HTC and 1 other (forgot who) who filed for the reexams settled before 774 & 737 got NIRC's right? Yup, and they got a discount for sure.
If the Markman is as big of a deal as some say, why did 19 settle?
But, a 2nd Markman is likely and the 1st one is on record.
Might hurt, might not.
Aint no IP lawyer nor is anyone else on these boards...lol.
Bottom line, Handal is handing future infringers....hi LL."
