Like I said a couple of posts ago, we're in the TX court to establish enough precedent to validate the licensing future of the MMP, but not, perhaps, to go all the way to trial. Oh, we will, if we have to, and we might. But that gets VERY expensive (treble damages), when a decisive Markman ruling might be enough to sway most people, especially if future licenses are relatively cheap and spread across hundreds or thousands of companies.

Give us a legal stick to carry -- markman decisive -- and we'll buy the portfolio and collect license money ourselves, says (in my opinion) ARM, which then proceeds to collect more than it paid to settle/buy out.

Win-win. Even for the lawyers.

jmo.