It's interesting. To further illustrate your point, even after that other landmark rulling (LG / Quantas?! - can't remember what that one was called), the MMP was bringing in license fees in the $1 for each $3,000 to $5,000 in infringer gross revenue range.
Samsung for example, was a $181B annual revenue company in 2014. Yes, that's B as in BILLION. Using even the HIGH end of the licensing range of $1/$5,000 would result in a license fee of $36M under STANDARD discounted license fee structure of the past. That was the rate evem AFTER the perceived adverse LG/Quantas ruling.
LG was a $59B annual revenue company in 2014. That's a $12M standard license fee.
So lump in the fact that these current litigants are the "serial" infringers who have resisted licensing for years and years, and attempted to drive the MMP owners out of existence, and we should expect ABOVE standard "settlement" "licensing" fees. Settling now with ANY of them, will most certainly reflect a deep discount to the potential fees recoverable.
Obviously, the APPLE debacle that Leckrone injected into the mix at the fiduciarily irresponsible and apathetic permission of our BOD, has hurt us tragically, but you would think that the historical data I cite would be arguable as the more proper "standard" and that the legal team we now have should be able to mitigate the Apple license fee better than Jim Otteson was able to do in the HTC case.
If we're not acting like Babe Ruth pointing to the left outfield wall calling our shot at this stage in the game, shareholders have no chance in my opinion. Capitulation by our side with settlements prior to litigation, or prior to at least mounting the courthouse steps, will be indicative of Flowers, Johnson, & Felcyn looking after only their own pockets, and not the owners of the company that they're supposed to be.
That being said, considering the cowardice and contempt that Flowers, Felcyn and Johnson show toward shareholders, I wouldn't be surprised to see them grab for quick cash for their own pockets and nothing more.
