<In December 2003, Patriot Scientific Corporation, a Delaware corporation (hereinafter referred to as the "Company," "we" or "us"), filed several lawsuits in United States District Courts against companies we contend are infringing on our patent number 5,809,336 entitled "High Performance Microprocessor Having
Variable Speed Clock." The defendants and suits are as follows:

Defendant U.S. District Court Case Number

Sony Corporation of America Southern District of New York 03CV10142

Fujitsu Northern District of California C035787

Toshiba America, Inc. Southern District of New York 03CV10180

NEC USA, Inc. Eastern District of New York CV036432

Matsushita District of New Jersey 03CV06210

The Company was requesting that the courts enjoin the defendants from making use of our patent and requested damages for past infringements. In February 2005, with the consent of the defendants, the above five actions were consolidated into the Fujitsu action in the Northern District of California under case number C035787.

In February 2004, Intel Corporation filed a lawsuit against us in the United States District Court- Northern District of California, case number C040439, in which they requested a declaratory judgment that their microprocessors, used by the defendants in our consolidated suit, do not infringe our patent. We filed a counterclaim against Intel contending that they also are infringing on our patent, and Intel asserted an affirmative defense that our 5,809,336 patent is invalid.>

So Patriot started the litigation. Leckrone has made statements that they prefer to negotiate not litigate. In that sense, the battle with the Js was not their choice nor was the timing. Could the J2.5 settlement be viewed by TPL as making the best of a situation they were not ready for? Opty