With respect to patents subject to a commitment to license on a Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) or Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND) basis, 2023 saw many interesting developments.
of time. why did the firing come on monday why didn t it happen months and months and months ago? had. well, that s one of the biggest questions that i think people at fox have why didn t they know more about just how bad this case was on the one hand, you have, you know, the senior legal advisors at fox corporation saying, look, we can win this. we may not win in delaware in front of a delaware jury but we can win it on appeal. then, aside from that, they re also kept in the dark about what exactly is in this discovery when you re at the companies at a high level, you re not engaged in the day-to-day kind of stuff. but the lawyers probably should have left a notice earlier than the day before the case was set to go to trial
case, yet settled for less tha half of what they sued for another thing to understan about civil litigation is th amount of money entered in the plaintiffs written complaint i never what they expect to get. it is always at least double what their highest hope is fro the jury so no, dominion do not settl for half dominion saddled for every penny that they can possibly get out of fox, and it s rea money that will be paid righ now. jury verdicts in civil cases are theoretically money that you can chase for years an years and years to try t collect. the dominion company is worth tiny fraction of what it got from fox in that settlement. it is extremely likely that if dominion won that amount o more from a delaware jury that fox could have successfull appealed that verdict as excessive and had the awar dramatically reduced to, say double or triple the value o the dominion company
another thing to understan about civil litigation is th amount of money entered in the plaintiffs written complaint i never what they expect to get. it is always at least double what their highest hope is fro the jury so no, dominion do not settl for half dominion settles for every penny that they can possibly get out of fox, and it s rea money that will be paid righ now. jury verdicts in civil cases a theoretical money that you can chase for years and years an years to try to collect. the dominion company is worth tiny fraction of what it got from fox in that settlement. it is extremely likely that if dominion won that amount o more from a delaware jury that fox could have successfull appealed that verdict as excessive and had the awar dramatically reduced to, say double or triple the value o the dominion company judges reduced jury verdicts i civil cases all the time
lawyers are already preparing for an appeal, a sign they are under no illusion that beating dominion s case will be easy at several recent hearings in front of judge davis, fox has been represented by erin murphy. the belief that the supreme court could eventually hear the case is shared by the general counsel of fox corp who is likely to be called as a witness by dominion during the trial and he told colleagues privately that he believes fox s odds at the supreme court would be good, certainly better than in front of a delaware jury sure to keep a closer eye on whatever happens, voting technology company smartmatic which is pursuing its own defamation case for $2.7 billion against fox news questions swirling over what comes next for fox news and dominion amid a brief delay in the trial. that is where we begin with some