Appriciate your post with a "serious side" to it...

Argument for the saking of arguing gets boaring after a while...

I merely add that I disagree with the notion that DM/EDIG would negotiate first before they file a law suit...

That option was taken away from them by the 9th Circuit decision in Sandisk v. ST Microelctronics...

That is one reason I suggested couple days ago that EDIG/DM are probably working with Allience in preparing their "portfolios" to serve on "potential Infringers", giving them the chance to respond before either party files for an Article III Declaratoy Relief remedy. This presupposes that a complaint is filed along with the service of the "portfolios" and an accompnaying "put up or shut up" letter in compliance with the Court Ruling in Sandisk supra...

GLTA

Gil...