I still think you can do it right. Bernie Madoff could do it ;) Edited: The key is that once you have the IP and no debt you will be able to sell a debt free company with the current business plan to provide a clearing house functionality to the pay per click model. It sounds like a ponzi scheme, but in reality the debt overhang and the YA anchor holds back the potential for this company. Once the credit card debt is paid off NeoMedia can go forward and resell its brand and get the $$ it needs to build out the ecosystem.
A consortium of companies funding/buying out NeoMedia was posed to the top 'dogs' way back in December, 2006, by a very bright and articulate shareholder. I would be very interested in seeing this type of buy out arrangement/opportunity implemented...but I simply don't know how feasible it would be.
Several tech-industry heavyweights are banding together to defend themselves against patent-infringement lawsuits. Their plan: to buy up key intellectual property before it falls into the hands of parties that could use it against them, say people familiar with the matter.
Verizon Communications Inc., Google Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson and Hewlett-Packard Co. are among the companies that have joined a group calling itself the Allied Security Trust, these people say.
One high-profile patent case that sent shivers through the tech industry was BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd.'s $612.5 million settlement in 2006 with NTP Inc., a ..
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