"there would be an incentive to collaborate on the part of defendants in protecting their IC

Sorry, your post made a lot of sense until the above statement."

Because, again, that is not my comment.

This is my comment....

These large groupings endorse to yet another degree for me of DM's involvement. IMO, there would be an incentive to collaborate on the part of defendants in protecting their IC source affiliations.

There's a legion of defendant affiliations that can be protected if the defendants act in unison... 34 x 1,500,000 = 51 million war chest....

Are the IC source affiliations worth protecting? Is there a down stream supply problem once e.Digital gets to their level as targets?

Why spend the 1.5 in a settlement now when it could be attributed to shutting down e.Digital permanently and keeping that supply chain intact?

They're either a bunch of chickens, the supply effort is not worth saving, or there are considerations in individual settlements of some sort.

There sure seems to be a lot to consider, if this is a tier 1, tier 2 process.

doni