RE:You're very quiet Cabbie... After mulling the oral argument over for a bit, there is only one issue of substance: damages.
The court had much interest in apportionment and the fact that comparable licenses were portolio licenses, not specifically to the asserted 145/757 patents. I thought Lamken argued common sense that the 145/757 patents were what made the VoIP feature in iPhones work.
A corollary to the apportionment issue, but seemingly less an issue for the court imo, was Kennedy's and Massotti's expert opinions supportive of the value of the IP to the Apple devices and thus the original $0.85 award. The court was very much in the weeds and I could not get a read on their leaning, if any.
The court glossed over the Intel issue, but I think they perked up when Lamken answered that the amount was in the 10s of millions of dollars - I read that as a positive for Wilan that the issue will not be disposed of out of hand like the District Court maybe did.
Overall, I thought the Apple lawyer was surprisingly quiet. Lamken sounded direct and confident.
There is little apetite with the court for a third trial. They will decide imo. If I had to guess, the award might end up somewhere between $0.45 and $0.85 per unit.
End result: neither positive or negative at this point. Just have to wait...or, settle! Next up, possible German leverage (on the 24th, I believe).