Mark Hartner: Agreed. It isn't just the $1.2B verdict, but the ongoing royalty. Jury is basically awarding 50 cents per HD controller chip sold in future.
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Mark Hartner: I am still wondering if this is why their CFO resigned, maybe he saw the writing on the wall on this one.
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Ashraf Eassa: Yeah. This cripples Marvell's competitive position against LSI in what is essentially a commodity disk controller market.
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Mark Hartner: CMU may go after LSI now. Based on court filings I read, LSI is not licensing these patents either. High likelyhood LSI also infringes.
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Ashraf Eassa: How critical is the patent that was infringed?
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trendsensor: How about if $MRVL appeals and gets a dismissal? Good chance of that? Bought little on ah @ 7.18 just in case we hear an appeal by $ MRVL