01-27-2008, 04:07 PM
Define "reasonable terms". In a legal sense that is a very slippery phrase, subject to interpretation and reinterpretation for every case. In a legal sense Epson might be asking for a reasonable amount in that it might not be for instance asking $50 per printer on units that sell for $100, but be more than Canon and other makers want to pay. And each royalty or license payment cuts into their profit, or they have to increase their prices which might make their product less competitive to the majority of the buyers who do not print on disks. In the end there does not need to be any agreement at all, just the decision that the legal cost to get the license price declared "unreasonable" outweighs any potential profit by doing so.