RE:Curious situationmrmoribund wrote: Pure speculation here but I would think that if Wilan and Motorola had a deal "effectively" signed a few days before the end of Q3 and Wilan wanted it actually signed before the end of Q3 (which they surely would) then Wilan would have, in some sense, made the deal conditional upon it being signed by then. Or at least they would have given Motorola an incentive to sign by then--as in, say, the price goes up by $50,000 if it's not signed by the end of September 30.
My point? If there's no deal announcement by the morning of October 1 then you'd have to start to wonder if the deal (if there really was one) is off.
But then this would raise another question. Well, I wouldn't have thought Wilan would have agreed in the first place to a two month delay unless that almost-completed deal were pretty darned solid.
If this just ends up being a two-month gift to Motorola that will not reflect well on Wilan.
Thus endeth the pure speculation.
A deal in principle means you agree on the larger lines and there will be a deal done. It doesn't mean you agree on everything and there can be points of negociations left.
I think you're all thinking way too hard about this... That both parties said before the court that a deal in principle was made means they'll have the deal signed and completed at some point.