Here we go:

>> Take Intel. After they got their license and after the settlement between PTSC and TPL, they too could have bought a ton of stock (they knew exactly what we had) at 4 cents. Double their money back and still holding stock worth ten times what they paid for it.

You do realize that that would be insider trading ?

Please explain how this would be insider trading. The patents are public record, their license was public record, the settlement between PTSC and TPL was public record.

>>They could easily have stepped in at that moment and bought the whole MMP.

They could have bought a lot of companies - qualcomm, rambus etc. They chose to focus on their core business and are minting money. Although they did make a ton of cash from rambus. Perhaps PTSC doesn't qualify as an investment. If word got out that intel was buying ( something they might have to pre-announce) PTSC stock, it would'a become much more expensive than it is today. Unlike AMD, they didn't receive the shares as a gift.

This doesn't respond to what I was saying. You say they are minting money. They aren't, at least not to the tune of a 200% return on investment (tax free), plus a 10X'er, with virtually zero effort expended.

>> They could easily have stepped in at that moment and bought the whole MMP.

As I have said earlier, that is NOT their core business. Companies that focus on their core business do well ( as they are doing).

Flash memory was not their core business, but now they're in. Consumer electronics was not their core business, but they got in, then got out, and now they're back in. And BTW, the first time they got in, they had access to (were pursuing) MP3 players, before IPod. Could there have been a little money made there (with proper marketing, which they could certainly afford)? Ask Apple.

I think I've made my point, and you your's. this thread is getting poiintless.....

No harm, no foul....

SGE