You've stated, I believe, that many of your clients have settled patent infringement suits with settlement deals that have included confidentiality clauses, or NDA's or whatever people want to call them. If my recollection is correct, then I have a couple of questions for you if you could answer.
First, have any of these settlements involved publicly traded companies (either your side or the other)?
If so, were any of these confidentiality agreements tied to anything more than discussion of the terms of the settlement, ie. discussion of other business dealings, enumeration of financial results from other business activities whereby the settlement figures might become known through a process of elimination, or other similar limitations. Basically wondering if you've run accross confidentiality clauses that would limit a company's ability to discuss aspects of its business unrelated to the settlement in question.
If so, have you ever seen it to be the type of limitation that lasted a specific duration such as 15 days, 30 days, until SEC filings were completed, etc.
Appreciate any responses. Thanks.
