For the curious. If all your friends jump off the Golden Gate bridge, would you do that too?
By normnowak
part of the Microsoft Lawsuit settlement was confidentiality of the settlement...Niro (vcsy Attorney) has held his cards close to the vest. Seven months after vcsy settled, another company named Cygnus filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft, Google and Apple...Cygnus could hire ANY law firm on planet earth... They hired Niro.... Cygnus would NOT have hired Niro if they had blown the vcsy vs. Microsoft case.. ....Cygnus would ONLY have hired Niro if they believed Niro could duplicate the success they had against Microsoft.... Niro had a game strategy that MUST have worked or Cygnus would not have chose them...CHECKMATE ! |
by normnowak
Immediately AFTER Microsoft settled with VCSY (Aug 28th or so) i am sure Raymond Niro was in discussions with IBM.Remember, NO patent infringement lawsuit was or has been filed against ibm....Let's say that Niro came up with a "royalty"agreement over the next 3 months....that would put us into january 2009.....if, and i stress if ibm paid anything to vcsy, it may have occured over the first 3 months of 2009.....the 10Q for ibm on pages 20 and 21 discuss money paid that includes intellectual propery (royalty)....the amount for the jan to march time is $30 Million dollars MORE that the time ending dec.2008.... THAT money would NOT be listed under " Legal" because NO lawsuit was filed..... Just pointing out a $30 million dollar increase in expenses that include "IP"...One other point, Microsoft DID hire a lawfirm to settle with vcsy( markman extension so that new firm could be called in).....Why call in a firm to settle if settlement is so so small????? Microsof't's lawyers ( who settle or fight all the time) couldn't work out a couple million dollar settlement with vcsy ? had to hire a specialist to close the deal? just asking! by the way, 8 months AFTER Niro settled the vcsy case, BackWEB Co. filed a patent infringement lawsuit case against Microsoft......why would backweb hire niro if he did NOT deliver the goods to vcsy? lots of lawyers would take a case (yes, even on a contingency) against Microsoft.........Just asking ! |
by normnowak
part of the Microsoft Lawsuit settlement was confidentiality of the settlement...Niro (vcsy Attorney) has held his cards close to the vest. Seven months after vcsy settled, another company named Cygnus filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft, Google and Apple...Cygnus could hire ANY law firm on planet earth... They hired Niro.... Cygnus would NOT have hired Niro if they had blown the vcsy vs. Microsoft case.. ....Cygnus would ONLY have hired Niro if they believed Niro could duplicate the success they had against Microsoft.... Niro had a game strategy that MUST have worked or Cygnus would not have chose them...CHECKMATE ! |
Posted by Portuno Diamo
at 1:28 PM EDT
Updated: Monday, 13 July 2009 1:40 PM EDT
