What the heck are you guys talking about??? We have nothing to do with CoreFlash. Yea, Alliacense manages licensing of the MMP (owned by TPL and PTSC); and Alliacense manages licensing of CoreFlash (owned by TPL and another entity) and FastLogic (owned by TPL and another entity). So what? They license separately. The patents involved are separate animals, owned by separate sets of entities. Drawing some weird correlation/conspiracy between the separate licenses of two separate sets of patents to Lexmark, with a 7-8 month separation of time means absolutely nothing.

And those simple-minded folks who believe that PTSC is paying penny one for efforts by Alliacense to license anything other than the MMP are nuts. Any concerns there could be easily handled by either dedicating personnel specifically to the licensing of one set of patents, and other personnel 100% dedicated to other sets (which would make sense organizationally and to assure proper patent knowledge base). Or they could just use time cards (ever heard of those?). Bottom line, IMO, Alliacense would never risk the intermingling of such expenditure of resources for one very simple reason - it would be FRAUD. And if there weren't absolutely clear procedures in place to assure separation of expenditures, fraud could be relatively easily proven (because in cases of fraud, you must prove INTENT - no measures would seriously imply intent). This would be taken very seriously in the internal operations of Alliacense, with all those lawyers, unless they all want to go to jail.

Now, am I missing something? I fear I have some of the posters involved in this discussion on ignore.

SGE