InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

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<<The slide show was the same. Apple expires in September and Samsung expires at the end of the year. They expect to resign them.>>

The question is will Apple force another lowball agreement?

<<Based on Apple-internal documents that showed up in its own dispute with Apple, Qualcomm notes that "Apple had a years-long strategy to hold out in SEP licensing, coerce favorable agreements, and then used those low-ball agreements as comparable licenses when holding out against Qualcomm." That is a very important allegation as it may explain why the likes of Ericsson, Nokia, and InterDigital have not yet renewed their SEP license agreements with Apple. At least the Ericsson-Apple agreement has expired, and I'll talk about their current litigation further below. But Nokia and InterDigital also appear to have a hard time working out reasonable license agreements with Apple short of having to enforce their rights in court. Those major SEP holders may simply be unwilling at this stage to renew those license agreements on low-ball terms. They'll want their fair share, and they now know Apple has so far paid greater SEP royalties to Qualcomm than to all others combined.

Qualcomm points to various examples of courts finding Apple an unwilling licensee, all the way up to the Optis and Unwired Planet v. Apple dispute in the UK, which will go to a FRAND trial shortly and where the court has already considered a hold-out tactic by Apple to constitute bad faith.>>

http://www.fosspatents.com/2022/06/qualcomm-says-apple-coerced-low-ball.html

This shows that Ericsson is back in court with Apple but they settled with Samsung:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/ericsson-sues-apple-again-over-5g-patent-licensing-2022-01-18/