Will Patent Office Eliminate Vringo's Right To Future Royalties From Google? [View article]
Why are you sweating me so hard? How about paying attention to Vringo, as that's who you're invested in. Sweating me only proves you have nothing to say in response to what I say about Vringo and that I'm completely right.
Will Patent Office Eliminate Vringo's Right To Future Royalties From Google? [View article]
Why are you talking about me? You're not invested in me. You're invested in Vringo. Talk about them and their patents and their measly $31M verdict when they said they'd get $493M. Please, prove something I've said is wrong. If you can't, you're admitting I'm right.
Will Patent Office Eliminate Vringo's Right To Future Royalties From Google? [View article]
No, Vringo WAS NOT awarded future royalties. Have you not read my article about that? That's a precise example of the false hope and hype spread by pumpers.
But, again, why is this about me. Let's talk about Vrngo, please. Let's talk about them and the failure of them to get anywhere close to the damages they said they were entitled to. Let's talk about the uphill battle they have to at the PTO. Personal attacks on me, and proving you pulled PUBPAT's public tax returns, proves you concede my arguments are right on the mark.
Will Patent Office Eliminate Vringo's Right To Future Royalties From Google? [View article]
Please tell me where I'm wrong. So far one person pointed out a typo and another pointed out that I missed the judge's decision finding the patents not invalid for obviousness, which is something I assumed would happen anyways. So, again, please tell me where I'm wrong and why the personal attacks on me don't simply confirm the strength of my arguments.
Will Patent Office Eliminate Vringo's Right To Future Royalties From Google? [View article]
I hate manipulation of the public and bogus patents being used to take money that's undeserved. That's what my non-profit it all about. Here, we have false pumpers promising hundreds of millions of dollars, first in a jury verdict and now in future royalties. The jury verdict returned $31M, which may not even stand. The future royalty hope and hype is similarly, in my opinion, extremely overstated by emotional irrational longs who have no better response to me than to make personal attacks, which just confirms how right I am and how out of touch they are with reality.
Will Patent Office Eliminate Vringo's Right To Future Royalties From Google? [View article]
No, I would not agree. My appearance was not private. It was on YouTube for heaven's sake. I speak all over the country many times a year for many different people. I don't get paid by them to do so. Whether Google makes money from my YouTube video is something I don't even know. There are no ads in front of it. Regardless, to say I am a paid shill for Google as an attack on the accuracy of my articles is just pathetically weak. Try talking about Vringo for once and stop trying to shoot the messenger when I provide facts and statements of law you don't like.
Vringo Vs. Google: Outcome Probabilities [View article]
If the patents are held invalid, they're dead. If they're held non-infringed, everyone else can copy what Google does and, thus, avoid them. Either way, the future value of the patents would be substantially, if not literally, nullified.
Vringo Vs. Google: Outcome Probabilities [View article]
I'm shocked to hear you say that a 100M expectation was already the market consensus, but then wonder why so many people have responded that I'm an idiot and don't know what I'm talking about. I also don't see anyone else having put a precise number on their expectations. Most commentators have put generalities, while others have said they're 100% sure Vringo will get billions. Time will tell.
Vringo Vs. Google: Outcome Probabilities [View article]
You're assuming Google can't develop a design around for less than 600-800M. I think that's unlikely. I think they could hire/award developers much less to do so.
Vringo Vs. Google: Outcome Probabilities [View article]
There're a lot of time and events that have to pass between now and any possible future royalty obligation. You're assuming a lot, including that the patents are valid and infringed and can't be designed around for a cost less than any potential future royalty obligation. Google could offer a $10M prize to any programmer that comes up with a design around the patents, and I bet they'd likely get at least one.
Vringo Vs. Google: Outcome Probabilities [View article]
Don't know what you mean by "fast track" appeal. They'd have to get in line just like everyone else, so appeal could easily take a year or more. Seems you're taking Vringo's arguments about whether there was even a motion pending as fact, which is not necessarily true.
Vringo Vs. Google: Outcome Probabilities [View article]
Oh, sure, there are lots of other lawsuits Vringo could file (if it's patents are not invalidated). I've written here what I think this trial is worth in net present value terms.
Rambus, Micron and Hynix Patent Suits: It Ain't Over Yet [View article]
TJ, I truly understand (and frequently share) your frustration with our legal system. The ambiguity around Rambus is, unfortunately, too commonplace. A legal realist knows that litigation, and especially patent litigation, is inherently complex and filled with substantial checks and balances. This has the benefit of, more often than not, getting to the right answer in the long run, but the detriment of taking an inordinate amount of time. Thus, whenever one is talking about patent legal issues, time should only be counted in years, sometimes decades, and never months.
The problem is that the marketplace can move too quickly in the interim for the aggrieved party to recover. The tech industry is riddled with examples. Microsoft used anticompetitive practices to put Netscape out of business. It succeeded by delaying its legal conviction for such practices beyond the point where the marketplace destroyed Netscape and further entrenched Microsoft. The legal fine was a mere cost of doing business, and MS has since made multiples from it much like the UPS and FedEx drivers who don't care about getting parking tickets, because they need to make their deliveries and charge a price high enough to overcome the trivial fines. Another example is Betamax, which ultimately won it's case defending our right to record TV shows (and without that decision, we would not have DVR's or Internet videos today), but as a result was put out of business. I fear the same may happen with Rambus. Ultimately, they should be vindicated, but they will have to fight hard to hold on until then, and the victory may be Phyric. The tactic employed by Micron, Hynix, etc., is tried and true, delay delay delay. I'm sure Rambus' management knows this. But, knowing the issue, doesn't solve it, any more than knowing one has a disease, provides a cure. I agree that reasonably people could settle, if they have a zone of overlap in expectations and requisite outcomes. That's not necessarily always the case.
Ackman V. Icahn - Don't Forget Whitman [View article]
Yeah, but he still has to have the money to buy the shares, and he paid a lot (10% ish) just for the options. For him to say he bought at 36, but wouldn't buy in the 40s, but yet he bought expensive options, his cost basis for those shares will be in the 40s by time you include the option cost. Pretty stupid of him, actually, to pay such a vig for the options. He only bought 3% of shares. Should've bought the 9.9% he's allowed. He way overpaid and no one's going to bail him out. I doubt the options be in the money at expiration, especially the Jan 15 ones. He's investing on emotion, not rational thinking.
Will Patent Office Eliminate Vringo's Right To Future Royalties From Google? [View article]
Will Patent Office Eliminate Vringo's Right To Future Royalties From Google? [View article]
Will Patent Office Eliminate Vringo's Right To Future Royalties From Google? [View article]
But, again, why is this about me. Let's talk about Vrngo, please. Let's talk about them and the failure of them to get anywhere close to the damages they said they were entitled to. Let's talk about the uphill battle they have to at the PTO. Personal attacks on me, and proving you pulled PUBPAT's public tax returns, proves you concede my arguments are right on the mark.
Will Patent Office Eliminate Vringo's Right To Future Royalties From Google? [View article]
Will Patent Office Eliminate Vringo's Right To Future Royalties From Google? [View article]
Will Patent Office Eliminate Vringo's Right To Future Royalties From Google? [View article]
Vringo Vs. Google: Outcome Probabilities [View article]
Vringo Vs. Google: Outcome Probabilities [View article]
Vringo Vs. Google: Outcome Probabilities [View article]
Vringo Vs. Google: Outcome Probabilities [View article]
Vringo Vs. Google: Outcome Probabilities [View article]
Vringo Vs. Google: Outcome Probabilities [View article]
Rambus, Micron and Hynix Patent Suits: It Ain't Over Yet [View article]
The problem is that the marketplace can move too quickly in the interim for the aggrieved party to recover. The tech industry is riddled with examples. Microsoft used anticompetitive practices to put Netscape out of business. It succeeded by delaying its legal conviction for such practices beyond the point where the marketplace destroyed Netscape and further entrenched Microsoft. The legal fine was a mere cost of doing business, and MS has since made multiples from it much like the UPS and FedEx drivers who don't care about getting parking tickets, because they need to make their deliveries and charge a price high enough to overcome the trivial fines. Another example is Betamax, which ultimately won it's case defending our right to record TV shows (and without that decision, we would not have DVR's or Internet videos today), but as a result was put out of business. I fear the same may happen with Rambus. Ultimately, they should be vindicated, but they will have to fight hard to hold on until then, and the victory may be Phyric. The tactic employed by Micron, Hynix, etc., is tried and true, delay delay delay. I'm sure Rambus' management knows this. But, knowing the issue, doesn't solve it, any more than knowing one has a disease, provides a cure. I agree that reasonably people could settle, if they have a zone of overlap in expectations and requisite outcomes. That's not necessarily always the case.
Ackman V. Icahn - Don't Forget Whitman [View article]
Ackman V. Icahn - Don't Forget Whitman [View article]