It may be hard for people to digest, but companies are not in the business of corporate welfare for other companies or tying their successes to what some sub-$100M market cap company with a very troubled history might do with its patents.
Simply put, if you infringe on the MMP, you buy a license, and you no longer infringe. To think that Apple (or the J3 for that matter), bought an MMP license for anything other than cold hard cash, and with the agreement that the relative fleas that are TPL & PTSC were now out of their lives forever, is naive and frankly laughable. For posters on this board to continue to try to imply and raise expectations that there's more to it than that is irresponsible IMO.
People are even going so far as to imply that Apple was providing TPL/PTSC with insight into their case against Samsung! LOLOLOL! You really think that Apple, that's right THAT APPLE, would jepordize their case by providing information to the likes of Dan Leckrone, Carlton Johnson, and the Alliacense team?! These people can't even stop backstabbing each other, but now Apple was going to entrust them with delicate information, or other confidential info and risk that Samsung would get access to it in the middle of a LANDMARK case!
Please people, put on your thinking caps. Realize, that at the time (and probably still) TPL was in desperate need of cash, Apple was willing to sign a multi-portfolio deal, and TPL saw it as an opportunity to get a bigger slice of the license for themselves and ultimately threw the entire partnership and the licensing program into a mess because of it. Thankefully, the USPTO, and the court system have been a bit more competent and less corrupt at protecting the MMP.
Just as with the MOU farce back with the J3, to continue to advance a theory of there being more to the Apple deal than a license in exchange for $$ is to be intentionally deceitful, IMO. And the funny thing is that this comes predominately from posters who complain about critical posters bringing up the poor past performance of the BOD.
It's time to MOVE ON, and realize the MMP is stronger today than it's been in years, and there are still hundreds of infringing targets out there (if not more). The legal strategy is heating up, and the prospects are appearing more promising for support through the legal system. Apple getting the MMP for a song is OLD news, (and SAD news as proven by PTSC & TPL's secrecy on the topic) and to try and manufacture anything more out of it is to misdirect readers away from the current positives, IMO.
