They will have so much cash from settlements from these 7 companies. Maybe an acquisition or two, stock buybacks, dividends and what ever else you do with cash?
I found this simple summarization of what happened in court. I found this posted on Yahoo board. Sounds very accurate to me. NETLIST won that case after Google engineers told the judge that they had removed all offending modules. The judge said great you would not mind a court ordered audit then. He sent in a team to randomly select severs for audit and found Netlist IP in them manufactured by a company called Metaram. Google was found guilty of infringing on NLST IP . The jury was about meet to declare damages on Google. Google then challenged the validity of NLST 912 patent Netlist and google agreed to a stay of the damages until the patent was fully vetted by the USPTO. That has been completed and USPTO found in favor of NLST. So stay can be lifted and the judge can assemble a jury to determine a just award to NLST. Or Google can come up with a figure on their own settle and avoid court.
Also be aware this has been a 10 year plus legal battle in addition Google engineers lied to the judge saying they had removed all offending modules. I think lawyer costs fees should also be a factor in the settlement.
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