to further elaborate.. I don't have the numbers in front of me so these are nice and round just to make the point...
Let's say the total settlement is a billion.
Inventors 25%
lawyers 30%
Bentham 25%
us- the rest....
then this would only leave us with 20% of this, or 200 mil to split among shareholders.
HOWEVER
If Bentham is capped at $25mil, then in the above scenario, he'd only get 2.5% rather than 25%, and I assume the rest would go to us as a part of the 'what's left' bucket.
Inventors: $250mil
Lawyers: $300mil
Bentham: $25mil
then that leaves $425mil for us, rather than just $200.
This is leaving Billy and UO!IP and Diedre and all that out of the equation, and is just meant to make the point that if Bentham is truly capped, then in a large settlement our share is larger than it might appear at first glance.
Just to be clear, whether Bentham gets $25mil or $250mil I believe Billy should pay for all of it, but either way... $25m does look a lot better.