I had a chance to ask senior Leckrone specifically what the increase in the charge for 2nd tier licensees is and he responded, somewhat distantly (I think he was distracted a bit) that it was in the neighborhood of 2.5%.

Just so that newbies know Dan Leckrone and following him his son Mac Leckrone:

Dan Leckrone, Chairman

Dan Leckrone began his career as a trial lawyer, but after several years began his focus on the development and implementation of strategies for the management of the legal affairs of technology-based companies. He became heavily involved in the development and management of multi-national intellectual property asset portfolios, the structuring of multi-national joint ventures for the development and use of technology, and the structuring and management of complex multi-national litigation. Before founding the TPL Group in the late 80s, he served as Vice President-Law of Memorex International, General Counsel Domestic of Memorex Corporation, and a "time-shared" Chief Legal Officer for a host of technology-based start-up companies in Silicon Valley.

Mac Leckrone, Alliacense President/COO

Mac Leckrone is a California lawyer with extensive intellectual property experience. Prior to joining Alliacense in 2004 he served with Dolby Laboratories most recently as Director of Intellectual Property Licensing Strategy. During his eight-year tenure with Dolby, he was responsible for the firm's Consumer Electronics, PC, Automotive, Telecom and Broadcast sector licensing transactions as Dolby prevailed as the dominant digital audio codec format. Prior to Dolby, he served as a Licensing Executive for Video Processing Technology where he was instrumental in the development and commercialization of an IP portfolio encompassing video signal processing technology, including the licensing of Picture-in-Picture technology to the Consumer Electronics and Broadcast sectors.

I was REALLY impressed with their presentations - especially Mac's.

Cheers, DW