Financial analysts struggle with the injunctive relief conundrum

How do you apply the possibility of an injunction onto the value of a company and its stock? It was difficult before reform legislation and Ebay became hot issues and is now even more challenging as both of these issues have become important and a cloud has emerged over the standard for awarding injunctive relief. Read this recent Caris & Co. downgrade of Research in Motion, which comments on the recent Visto infringement suit filed against RIM and the possibility of an injunction, as evidence of the struggle.