"As I mentioned in an earlier post,NEOMS patents have been gone over with a fine tooth comb by experianced PATENT attorneys who had all the time they needed to find ANY flaw. Bottom line, they licensed."
That's possibly all correct. We do know the "licensed" part is correct, if nothing else.
Alternate Scenario
Let's take Virgin for example, where as best I can recall we never saw any evidence of any significant license fees. I suppose I could be wrong and I am certainly open to correction. I'm not even sure that Virgin is currently doing anything which utilizes any NeoMedia patents which they 'licensed'.
Anyway, perhaps Virgin had a choice.
A -- Virgin could have paid patent attorneys to spend many hours and lots of Virgin money going over patents with a fine tooth comb, looking for any flaw. Patents which they may in fact have not even been sure they would really need to utilize going forward.
.... or ....
B -- Virgin could have taken what appears to have been a free or relatively inexpensive license from NeoMedia, with NeoMedia perhaps thinking the "connection" with the Virgin name would serve a favorable future purpose ... perhaps much the same way that Scanbuy may be forgoing revenues at the moment in return for a lot of exposure.
Let's see, if I'm Virgin .... I think I pick B.
In short, I'm not sure we are actually privy to how fine-toothed a comb has gone over NeoMedia's patents up to this point.
I do think we can be reasonably certain that a very fine-toothed comb is going over them now.
JMHO
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