RE:RE:RE:Divesture of Wilan?The following, from Astutein's, post is nonsense:
" I have been advised by my lawyer friend that any purchaser would normally have to agree to enforce any signed license agreements of company"s patents .
Purchaser of Wilan could possibily be sued for non compliance and enforcement of signed confidential agreements and failure to enforce in court. ..
For reasons above, (IMO) divesture of Wilan will not occur."
If this was the case, hardly any companies would ever be sold.
A buyer acquires the corporation (ie 100% of the shares), and it is the corporation which has has assets and liabilities, including enforceable contracts (for example, licensing contracts). Contracts do not generally just disappear or become invalid because 100% of a corporation's shares are acquired by a new owner. Further, the new owner would bend over to make sure favourable contracts were enforceable and remained that way.
On the BoD - have a look at how long 4 of them have been around, and then look at the LT stock chart. There is a relationship.