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Pat: Having just made almost 40% on Mosaid on the Wi-Lan buyout offer, can you comment on the idea of reinvesting my original capital in Wi-Lan? I really liked Mosaid as a company, and am looking for something similar to invest in again. Regards.

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Wi-Lan Inc., $6.94, symbol WIN on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 124.8 million; Market cap: $866.1 million; www.wi-lan.com), develops and licenses telephone, wireless and digital-video technologies. The company has 850 issued and pending patents that relate to Wi-Fi, WiMAX, CDMA, DSL, DOCSIS, and V-Chip technologies. Wi-Lan has licensed its patents to over 230 companies. It has also launched a number of lawsuits for patent infringement that could result in significant settlement windfalls. So far this year, the company has reached settlements with Intel, Cisco and Texas Instruments. In the three months ended June 30, 2011, Wi-Lan’s revenue jumped to $27.4 million from $11.6 million a year earlier (all figures except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars). Excluding one-time items, the company earned $20.8 million, or $0.17 a share. That’s up sharply from $1.2 million, or $0.01 a share, a year earlier. Wi-Lan holds cash of $204.5 million, or $1.64 a share. It has no long-term debt. Wi-Lan has made a hostile takeover…