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Royalties?

posted on Aug 27, 2009 12:15PM

I think this has been brought up before, but I don't recall anyone having any thoughts on this. Maybe I just missed it.

Can anyone explain why we have not been going after agreements that include royalties for future use of our patents? So far, the settlements have all been one time payments for past infringement with licenses granted for any future use of our IP. That doesn't seem to be the best way for us to be compensated. If we had royalty agreements, that would be a business plan that new investors would be attracted to because it would show a source of ongoing revenues, apart from litigation. This is where I thought we were going 10 yrs. ago... why does it appear to have been abandoned?

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

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