It depends what you give up on the front end to stack the back, yet unknown, end.

While I certainly would love to see revenues generated through 20014-16 based on licensing fees, it raises a lot of questions and possible further litigation. Also, current litigation might just be concluding by then....and the life of the patents doesn't justify holding up or diminishing settlements just to exploit the window between 2008 and 2016, considering how long cases take...two year windows....with only 8 filed to date.

Go for the mega-settlement first and foremost....

It is not unusual to get licensing agreements and considering the flash market growth anticipated they should be able to quantify it, but a large upfront settlement also has its benefits....a warchest to buy other companies, expand on current business opportunities, reduce debt, buyback shares, increase R&D....lots of immediate solutions.

I want both but I don't want EDIG to have to limp along after litigation is complete....also there are our exit strategy time frames to consider.