Ropes&Grey, Blank Rome are creme de la creme SF
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SFOR is in the best legal hands possible.Ropes and Grey is undefeated in PI cases. Ropes and Grey opened an office near silicon valley to handle the hangout of the many bigtime infringers hiding there.
Blank Rome took on Microsoft and came away with 9 mil at a desperate time for SFOR.
Remember Ropes and Grey has ties with most if not all TPG's business's, McAfee, Intel, ACS, and SFOR
SFOR has a lot of backing here and SFOR winning will have a big impact on all the aforementioned businesses revenues and on future buy out discussions, the TPG/R&G connection looms big here IMO. (Let the bidding begin)
Rope and Grey and Blank Rome will stand to make an amazing amount of revenue from enforcing SFORs patents. Blank Rome is on contingency and it is strongly rumored Ropes and Grey is also.
So with so much riding on the Patent infringement side of things SFORs lawyers are out for the quick kill on Alice. Every detail covered. We have nothing to worry about here IMO. we have a heavy arsenal of weapons going into this, the enemy nothing.
Once the dismissal is overturned, the expectation is settlements, there is nothing left to argue from the infringers point of view. Alice is all they came up with enforce by an inept/bungling judge, attacking 1 claim of 54 and once that is blown up , infingers have absolutely NOTHING!
We expect the settlements that were put on hold (Duo/Cisco, Centrify/Thales, Trustwave/Singtel to settle quickly. with buy outs of Duo , Centrify and singtel the settlements take on an international impact much bigger settlements from billion dollar conglomerates Thales and Singtel. The SCOTUS made a ruling that benefits SFOR regarding enforcing US patents used internationally.
The big enchilada Cisco already protected itself setting money aside from the Duo buyout to pay both treble damages and licensing fees. The buy out presents no risk for Cisco. What a great SFOR channel partner they will be.
Remember a large group of the fortune 500 are infringing on SFORs patents.
Future letters of infringement going out after the aforementioned settlements to newly identified infringers should be met, mostly with immediate settlements rolling in without much contestation. Or they risk treble damages and millions in unnecessary court fees.
The flood gates are about ready to open to SFOR from many catalysts with lawsuits being a big one. Bsafe along with PCI & Govt Revenues rounding things up.