Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
The Markman hearing issue is a double-edged sword. Obviously, if we get a good finding (and particularly a finding of essentiality), then we will have a strong sword to use in license negotiations....indeed, remember the conference call when IDCC said it is using the Lucent Markman results as part of its informational packet. Of course, the huge downside is we might get a negative result, which could significantly affect our ability to license in the future. The fact is, Nokia wanted to create uncertainty in at least part of our patent portfolio, and that's what this does. No company wants to take a chance, no matter how small, that a Court, special master or other expert will deny the validity or essentiality of a patent. Nokia realizes that, and can now use the risk - no matter how small - as leverage against IDCC. At the end of the day, lets just hope this all settles and goes away SOON.
PACER UPDATE...there will a Markman hearing in July 2007 .
Minute Entry for proceedings held before Judge Joseph J. Farnan, Jr. : Scheduling Conference held on 3/1/2006. DECISION: Parties are to submit a new Proposed Scheduling Order with a Markman Hearing for 07/15/07 (which the Court may move by 60-90 days to allow for additional discovery, if necessary). Parties are to suggest possible trial dates and the Court will pick a date to insert. The Court also wants to appoint Collins Seitz, Jr., Esq. as a Special Master. The parties are to file objections to Mr. Seitz's appointment within a week. (Court Reporter Heather from Hawkins ct. rptr.) (afb, ) (Entered: 03/02/2006)
Unfortunately, as I mentioned before, without a settlement, this will drag on for several years. Indeed, if the trial is set in early 2008, trial and appeal wont be done until 2009.
Nice jinx. Now look where we are. Lets just be quiet please. Thanks.
Very strange trading. Creeping back down again.
So far, so good. Let's not jinx it.
A lot of volume this morning.
My intent was not to be rude or degrading. I just didn't know if you were an engineer or a layperson. Thanks for clarifying.
what qualifications do you have to interpret the importance of a patent? are you an engineer? i dont mean to be terse, just want to know the source.
PACER:
Scheduling Conference with the Court set for March 1.
Back to the fun days of 30,000 shares traded an hour...like watching paint dry. Fortunately, and hopefully (knock on wood) we appear to be past the days where that low volume resulted in big price drops.
Is it as inevitable as the S/SE license that hasn't arisen yet?
I take his "possibility" with a grain of salt. He has also been predicting the end of Nokia "in six to nine months" for about 2 years.
Agenda? I find it comical that people on here think posters have an agenda or, even more comical, that if someone did have an agenda, they would try and push it through on a public message board. Can someone identify a single substantive business decision IDCC has made based on what anyone posted on here? Of course not. This board, at best, disseminates information for investors. It has no bearing on the day to day decisions the company makes.
Seven Form 4s. All purchases through stock grants.
PLEASE READ.....
You people are ridiculous. I was simply letting people know what was going on in pre-market in case they dont have access, just as I have when the price goes up. That said, I want to abide by Jim's request and not start this nonsense again. PLEASE - no one comment on my earlier post and move on.
Some asks coming in at .44 cents below the close (i.e., $24.50).
It doesn't remotely mean that.
While i disagree with Nokia's tactics from an ethical standpoint, legally and strategically, it's actually quite smart. The longer Nokia can drag this case out and create even the slighest risk of minimizing the value of IDCC's patents, the more Nokia keeps a bargaining chip alive come the likely loss over 2G.
Under the proposed scheduling order, even in the best of cases, the Delaware matter will not be over (if litigated and not settled) until late 2007 or early 2008. Unfortunately, as I posted earlier this week, I suspect the Nokia/IDCC battle to range on for at least another year. To that end, and in further support, in the settlement conference portion of the Order, Nokia said "no settlement conference needed."
PACER: A letter with a proposed order was filed. I cant access it as my adobe is down. Anyone?
Nothing on PACER as of 5:05pm.
Does anyone have the remotest idea of the revenue we might get from the Infineon deal?
Important: From IDCC itself...we will get money from the Panasonic deal. Specifically, I asked Janet in an email whether we will get money from the Infineon/Panasonic deal, and copied the article discussing the deal below my email. Her response: "that is the plan."
i sent Janet an email, and received an automated response that she is out until Feb. 22.
are you 100% certain IDCC will receive revenue as a result of this agreement, or is it your hope or aspiration that it might one day occur. That is, does our current deal with Infineon definitively guarantee that we will get paid for this, or are you just assuming or hoping that might happen?
Do we get any revenue from this?
That's exactly why IDCC won't get paid from the JV, at least not for a while. Nokia will not enter a license with IDCC as part of a JV or otherwise...not until the litigation has run its course, which in my opinion, will be at least another year or so.
I will bet quadruple or nothing on the combined value of every bet we've ever had that IDCC gets nothing from the JV without a license. I'd also bet that we wont see such a license anytime soon; Nokia will not license with IDCC (at least not until it fights for a while longer).
I wouldnt count on any money that in any way would have to come from Nokia before 2007 at the earliest. Unfortunately, it looks like they might fight this one all the way.
The article was from December 29 (look at the published date)
PACER...
Nokia opposes IDCC's attempt to designate this as a complex case. While not all that interesting substantively, the brief likely destroys any notion that some on here had that the extensions indicated settlement. As I indicated earlier, I believe the Nokia/IDCC battles will unfortunately continue for some time. To that end, I would not be surprised to see IDCC initiate a second arbitration soon. Ugh.
Easy, they claim that IDCC duped the other companies. Its no defense to a fraud/Lanham Act claim that someone else bought your product because the easy answer is that you might have committed fraud on them as well. Simply because your alleged fraud was large in scale doesn't make it immune from prosecution. I'm not saying IDCC defrauded anyone, just that other purchasers don't eliminate a claim.
The days of that rumor having influence are gone. You can only "cry wolf" so many times.
Party's over (for now)
Volume picking up significantly on the upward move. Hopefully something is in the offing (something good that is).
Agreed. I wouldnt read into it that much.
PACER Update......
IDCC and Nokia extended the time to file their Joint Scheduling Proposal to February 15.
I completely agree that you plan for war while the doves try and make peace. I just have not seen in occur in this manner before.