We all have celebrated, more or less, the settlements our attorneys have reached with the various violators of our IP. Regardless of the amounts involved, these settlements have nothing to say, or at least we do not know, about future violations. In other words, we may settle for past violations but how about the future ones? Given these setlements can the companies we have taken to the court keep producing and selling the products without paying any royalties?

Clearly, we do not know the terms of the settlements but, if they exist, they should appear as a regular income. To the best of my knowledge, there is not a single item that qualifies in the recent statements issue by our little company that can be construed as such and our attorneys as well as the management will invoke the NDAs regadless whether they exist or not.