Going back to something I previously suggested. Perhpas we did not really know how much settlement should be for and the reason for the MOU. As perviously stated, Toshiba's late document dump in Japanese made that difficult, if not impossible in the time allowed. Now it seems unlikely we could have tied a past and future price to JVC. See link below.

<Current Kenwood Chairman Haruo Kawahara will become the company's chairman while JVC President Kunihiko Saota will serve as JVC Kenwood Holdings' president. It is unknown what specific market the new company will target, but it may eventually sell high-end products for car audio enthusiasts and select consumer electronics while avoiding low-price, low-margin consumer markets.>

The new merged company does not yet know what market it will target, hence what products they will sell. So how did we calculate what JVC should pay? The merger negotiations began in July 2007, so it not like it wasn't an anticipated event during settlement negotiations. Are we sure that settlement grant of a license is not temporary? Opty

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