I just believe that the Texas court will encourage mediation, ie settlement, and in a settlement no one ever gets full price. What is full price anyway, that would be a good question. That is what I responded to last night.

The name of the game is get what you can get. Do you expect to get a court to make someone pay us way more than they should? Just because we had to sue them? I believe that patent suits are becomming a negotiation process simular to Chapter 11, unless the one being suied can prove themselves out of it and get away scott free. Don`t get me wrong , I know it`s not really like that, but Texas is becomming too popular with the patent crowd, what do you think they will do with the huge load. It`s all really moot anyhow, TPL probally would settle before a court award, IMO

Back to the question, how do you put a price on a company like Toshiba, for instance. The gross amount of money they make has nothing to do with it, IMO. It is only the chips that infringe that matter. Ok, say Toshiba sells x number of chips, and has sold y number of chips and could sell z number of chips in the future. x+y+z @ what price to us?

10% of the cost? 20% of the profit? 5% of the retail price of the chip? 5% of the whole sale of the chip? and what about the difference in time X chips cost different than Z chips to come. Now take in to account a car that may have 20 or 30 chips in them...all comming from different vendors. How and what do you tell someone like GM on the you must pay full boat price. So , IMO , TPL is going about the problem in a way that would keep the companies from haveing to provide records of the exact cost and number of chips sold, selling, and a projecton of what will sell over time. The of course will tell them that we could sue you and that info will come up in court and then we will have it. BUT, to save major $ for you and us, in legal fees, we will settle for such amount. Most companies will fight to keep the books closed. TPL would have to sue most everyone to open up the books. That would take many many years and tons of Cash.

100 + million dollars to the MMP so far this year alone, and eveyone is crying. Cry about AMD and Intel, they are the ones who got away mostly free. They are laughing all the way to the bank.

What if we do get more than 100 companies to settle and all of them not paying ``full boat price`` whatever that could be. What then would you think of your investment? A failure? Has Alliacense taken over 100 million from 7 companies so far? Maybe, and if so, that could be rounded up to 15 million par each. Ok, using the par amount for 125 companies we get 1 billion 875 million, hope not all were discounts so we round that up to 2 billion even, about 1 billion even to PTSC over the next 8 or 9 years. If that`s what happens are we a failure?

IMO, we could get much more, and of course not be a failure. What they do with the money and the future is where PTSC as a company becomes a very long term failure or not.

I for one choose not to be greedy in my thoughts and dreams of 500 million dollar court wins or 200 million dollar settlements. If PTSC takes in 100 million a year for the next 8 or 9 years average. What do you believe the shareprice to be in a couple of years. Yes, I am a dreamer too, but I`m not trying to dream too big. Even though I probally am..LOL

Be happy thing are going our way and we are getting settlements, it very well could have not happened.

Don`t cry over how much more money TPL ``Could`` have made for us.....arm chair quarterbacks have never won a game.