InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

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jeffree..

NOK is Not in position to Indemnify MSFT from ALL IPR holders...especially IDCC...MSFT is Paying NOK for Their patents in a License agreement, multi-year..yet the Devices that MSFT will be selling (handsets, tablets, phablets, +other mobiles) may still infringe (many of us Here Believe that to be the case) and put MSFT "at risk"...


Yes. I get all that. I never said NOK would indemnify MSFT against all IPR holders. I am merely addressing the speculation that MSFT needs NOK to settle before the acquisition. I still don't think there is an urgency to do so.

Common sense would say that MSFT and NOK have Something in the "acquisition contract" to "protect" MSFT from those (and other) risks...that they could inherit...
In order for NOK to "maintain a patent portfolio Strong enuf" to safely protect MSFT, NOK would have to BUY InterDigital...and I doubt they have that much Cash...

They don't have to buy IDCC, they just have to deal with patent challenges as they occur.