jldmt / Re: I'll ask again
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May 19, 2010 06:39PM
What question are you asking? It seems more like a statement with a question mark. If you're asking what Sony paid, I'd say this:
Ultimately, from the SEC filings, I don't think the Sony fee was ever disclosed. What was disclosed was $25.75M aggregate for the quarter containing the Sony, Nikon, Seiko/Epson, & Pentax deals. If you apply the AVERAGE Annual Revenues to License Fee ratios, that would imply Sony paid $17.7M, Nikon $2.75M, Seiko $5.0M, and Pentax $0.3M. Not the numbers they claim but not far off either.
I've seen others say Sony only paid $10M, but I don't think that was ever documented.