Apple shares in lieu of CashHere is how we can settle with Apple immediately with no cash changing hands.
It's what they want after all?
No more paying lawyers, court fee's, etc.
QTRH recieves 1M apple shares.
In exchange, they never hear from QTRH again (in relation to these patents).
No cash, no royalties, no liscensing, etc.
Apple has 3.8B shares outstanding for a market cap of $1.4T (thats trillion).
If apple were to issue 1M shares from treasury it would not even change anything (due to rounding). Would still be 3.8B shares. It's a no brainer for them.
QTRH then distributes the 1M apple ahares in the form of a dividend to its shareholders.
1 apple share (value US$300) for every 119 QTRH shares.
QTRH would still have the clean balance sheet to move their present strategy forward.
Besides, it's not like apple is going to cut a cheque anytime soon for the $85M.