Don't know where you're getting 23 months from, but why, if Q has design arounds, would they not tell the investment community that they do, and what the status is, and where they are in the process (unless they weren't very far, and the status was not good)?
Q had, IMO, a design around for the power saving patent at the time of the ruling, and took the tack of never mentioning it, instead just pleading with Bush, who was never going to do a damn thing, to overrule. It seemed they wanted to portray themselves as being out of options if Bush didn't rule their way. This made them look like whipping boys. Perhaps the proper legal approach, but a PR disaster.
Q's responses are still vague, IMO, on whether they have work arounds in place for the power control IP.
Here, it seems they still can appeal, I presume, but let the shareholders know what the status of design arounds are. How would keeping that information a secret benefit Q (unless it was bad news)?
Q would be to keep quite publicly for at least 23 months |
