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I was wondering what #3, this "OTLC" patent settlement was. I found this PDF, describing the development of a "write once run anywhere" OO C++ system, called Taligent, by an IBM/Apple joint-venture trying to compete with Microsoft: https://old.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc15...

The project failed and all that came out of it was some valuable text and internationalization patents, and OTLC is the name of the holding company for the patents.

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ICU (a popular Unicode library) came from Taligent, though it’s been through at least one total rewrite.

https://www.theregister.com/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_...

"David Boies, attorney for the DoJ, noted that John Warden, for Microsoft, had omitted to quote part of a handwritten note by Fred Anderson, Apple's CFO, in which Anderson wrote that "the [QuickTime] patent dispute was resolved with cross-licence and significant payment to Apple." The payment was $150 million. "

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