Replies to post #49906 on XpresSpa Group Inc (XSPA)

[yahoo_tebeda]

If at all, till the last minute HJJ was giving the better benefit of the doubt to goog to the point most of us were believing (including myself) that something sinister was going on. That is why I truly believe goog has no chance of wining the appeal. It will scream all the way to the bank to withdraw a few billion dollars and hand it over to vrng and its shareholders including pay back for the stupid shorting it is continuing to do, imo.

[Snoooop40]

I absolutely expect more institutional ownership in the future. Unfortunately (more often than not), institutions have investment "guidelines" that don't allow them to invest in companies that have a share-price lower than $5.00. Hence I am not surprised that the enormous short entity found it imperative to get the share-price below that value. I think some additional "news" will be required to get above that point.

With the multitude of potential catalysts for Vringo, I see the immediate and near-term trading to remain very volatile.

As far as the appeal(s) cases are concerned, my understanding is that in order for an appeal to be successful, the appellant must establish that the decision being appealed was formed based on an error. That could be violating a party's due process rights, incorrectly applying case law, making a decision that is contrary to "clear and convincing" evidence, or other forms of "abuse of discretion". I just don't see that in Google's appeal brief.

In the case of Vringo's appeal, it is much more clear where they are suggesting an error(s) occurred.

The CAFC is a real wildcard to try to predict.