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Originally Posted by Yanks23
dumb ? does this mean that panini can delay the license transfer to fanatics until lawsuit is done or can the both make products or just fanatics? im not up to date on how this works.
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It's likely this case stretches out well beyond the cutover date. Fanatics will take over in that time and Panini's only hope of getting back in is winning. That's why I have my doubts this actually makes it to a full-fledged trial. Panini is no small company by any means, but Fanatics is still 10x them. My guess is Panini rides this out until the cutover date, they take a settlement, disband their American business, and move all of production to Japan and Italy as they've already had to do to some extent.
Edit to add: Panini's deals expire at that point. They couldn't make cards at that point either way unless the leagues and PAs were willing to go back to the table. Would likely take them winning a case entirely for any of those entities to be willing to do that.