Xbox 360 ban: Microsoft rejects Motorola settlement

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Adinnieken said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Well actually the rumours suggested $10-15 as the sum asked by MS, but except that HTC case you cited, no other settling has been disclosed, so they could be too around $5. I think too $15 could be excessive, considering the only final deal we know, but as when you bargain you start asking for more than the minimum you want and offering less than the maximum you're ready to give, we at least know MS must have initiallly asked for an unknown amount more than $5 per phone.

Again, except that if your lawyers are worth any salt, they would have continued with the trial because they would know that if HTC could get $5 for licensing fees, then by continuing the lawsuit to the point where a judge/jury made the decision, they could get the same or similar damages.  So why settle a case for more in licensing costs?  The cost of lawyers for a trial won't be more than the cost of licensing over time?

Again, the HTC case was precedent, while that works in Microsoft's case, it also works in Samsung's case.  So again, I sincerely doubt Samsung is paying more than $5 per handset.

Sure, I agree about the final setlement, maybe I wasn't clear enough, I'm just suggesting that if roughly $5 was the final deal, at least the bargainings started before the HTC deal was revealed, and the HTC bargaing itself, obviously, must have started with MS asking for more than $5 and the opposing party offering less. And as we're talking about professionals of the matter, I can agree too that  the initial offers and requests must not have started too far away from the final deal.