RE:“Specific Consideration Payable” The strategic review of WILAN patents might indeed accelerated the settlement as this increased the bargaining power of QTRH: what if the WILAN portfolio was sold to Samsung and tSamsung could receive a verdict which would block the sale of iPhones in Germany ( >80 mio potential consumers..).
Samsung would in this case have a negative incentive to settle...
So we can speculate how much the settement amount was, but it was not necesseraly a fire sale. Moreover, a low amount would impact the sale of the entire portfolio which would make no sense after already 6 (?) years of lawsuits.
I would expect a financial update within the next days (I recall that a financial update after the samsung settlement was also a day later).
One question remains- why did QTRH moved the release of the Q4 numbers with one day on Friday while they knew this news was imminent. Would have made more sense to release this simultaniously.