VHC,
An explanation for why Siemen's has removed one of their 2 lawyer firms
Re: PACER (377) Unopposed MOTION to Withdraw as Attorney and for Termination of Electronic Notices by Siemens Enterprise
V-Man
“All this means is that instead of two law firms representing Siemens, now one is doing so. Can we all calm down and just hold on for Thursday. It could be interesting.”
The court motion itself apparently does not raise the possibility of a Seimens settlement but other factors could. I rarely try to predict future events because I am usually wrong about 98 percent of the time. But this could be one of the 2 percent.
Siemens is the technical consultant to the FCC for the FirstNet program, a two billion dollar project to upgrade the communications and internet capabilities of first responders. Because of that role it seems almost essential that Seimens settle the suit sometime in the near future for the following reasons.
Seimens is under contract to the FCC to help write the specification for FirstNet and VirnetX technology is essential to FirstNet per 3GPP spec TS 33.401. In addition, I believe that SAIC would be a major candidate to win the FirstNet competition, and SAIC would no doubt have VirnetX as a subcontractor (or licensee) for security.
Also, Flyers provided this as well “A public-safety committee (of the FCC) recently (in February 2012) selected Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) to serve as the common numbering administrator for public-safety waiver recipients seeking to develop 700 MHz LTE networks.”
It would a much smoother relationship if Siemens, SAIC and VirnetX were all on good working relations for the contract award of FirstNet. Siemens’ low profile in the litigation recently suggests to me that a settlement is possible. IMHO.
Best regards to all.
