- Intel paid at least $20M and likely much more.
- HP paid $26.4M.
- Fujitsu paid $31.6M
- Sharp paid somewhere near $20M.
Now that Apple has signed a license, when will PTSC reflect the license fee in the PDS portion of thier financials? What amount of money is an acceptable license fee for Apple considering the above list of fees paid? Has PTSC ALREADY reflected the fee collected in the last 10q?
What is TPL's exposure, if they discounted the MMP to Apple, in order to collect more on the non-MMP portfolios? What prevents them from doing the same in the future if the court does NOT restrain them legally from doing so? What are PTSC's remedies? What can we collect from an "insolvent" TPL, if rulings go in our favor?
Is our BOD up to this fight? Do they have the skill / knowledge / ability to prevail against a ruthless business partner who clearly was prepared for this strategy from the get-go based on the agreements they negotiated with PTSC?
What's an acceptable window of time (yet ANOTHER one) for them to prove their ability to those who feel "now is not the time" to change the BOD?
If Apple were to only have paid less than, lets say $7M for an MMP license under the watchful eye of our BOD, AFTER Carlton Johnson had already (in 2008) raised issue about acceptable license fees, without receiving "satisfactory responses", in reference to other deals, how can he be trusted to negotiate a VIABLE settlement that PROTECTS us from future shenannigans in light of the deals he's overseen and approved to date?
What will today's 10-K tell us about the above questions? I guess time will tell.