For a company like HP or AMD to throw $10-20 million at ptsc, to make a small problem go away and avoid a potentially much greater liability, is a no brainer, considering what they have at stake.
Certainly the patents were recognized as having merit otherwise we wouldn`t be seeing what happened, happen.
Expect more of the same. Exponential growth isn`t about to happen, it is happening, hence the double/double dividend.