The way I look at the situation is like this: People in the Micro-chip industry are not stupid. They knew exactly where the technology developed by Fish and Moore can from. The industry used this technology for years knowing that two small enities were suing each other for the rights to license the technology. The true owners, Fish and Moore, didn't have the resources to bring the infringers to the table. It's a game of make me pay if you can. If they don't think we can, they won't. They currently see a looming cash flow problem along with the fractures of the Moore, TPL allianse , so if they collectively hold back licensing revenues where are we going to get the cash to persue them. Unless we are successful enough in California either through a settlement (which I don't see for reasons I just stated, unless of course we can get the Judge to issues an injunction ) or victory through litigation which currently I don't know if we have the resources to persue. If something positive doesn't happen in California we may be running out of time for lack of resources. We need to make someone pay big-time to end all our problems, it may well be now or never