For Marlin as a DRM it has been a long journey. It came out of Intertrust shortly after the deal it cut in a courtroom with Microsoft for $440 million in April 2004, when it dusted itself off from the fight and decided what it would do for the rest of its corporate life. We spoke this week at IP&TV World Forum with Gilles Boccon-Gibod, SVP, Technology and Chief Architect at Intertrust and first off he listed all the good things that have happened to Marlin, some very recently. The latest announcement is that Intertrust has a strategic partnership with HTC, on both Windows and Android phones. The deal is for the same Intertrust patent portfolio that much of Windows…