Who is Spreadstrum Communications?
I was browsing SEC filings and saw a 20F for them filed yesterday. IDCC, among many others, mentioned in their 20F
"We rely on third-party licenses for some of our key technologies, as well as other technologies that are utilized in our products. We have incorporated into our baseband semiconductors digital signal processing cores licensed from CEVA, RISC processor cores licensed from ARM, 3G protocol stack software that we co-developed with Sasken and 3G protocol stack software that we licensed from Chongyou. We also license 3G technology from InterDigital Communications, LLC and its affiliate."
"Technology Transfer and Technology License Agreement, made on January 22, 2008, by and among InterDigital Communications, LLC, InterDigital Technology Corporation and Spreadtrum Communications, Inc., on behalf of itself and its affiliates.*†"
"EX-4.11 4 dex411.htm TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND TECHNOLOGY LICENSE AGREEMENT
FOIA confidential treatment requested: [***] indicates that certain information contained herein has been omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to such omitted portions.
Exhibit 4.11
Technology Transfer and Technology License Agreement
This Agreement is made January 22, 2008 (the “Effective Date”) by and among InterDigital Communications, LLC, a Pennsylvania Corporation with its principal office in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA (“IDC”); InterDigital Technology Corporation, a Delaware Corporation with its principal place of business in Wilmington, Delaware, USA (“ITC”); and Spreadtrum Communications, Inc., a Cayman Islands Corporation, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates (collectively “Spreadtrum”). IDC and ITC are collectively referred to as “InterDigital”, and IDC, ITC and Spreadtrum are referred to as “Parties”.
The background of this Agreement is as follows:
1. Spreadtrum is in the business of designing, manufacturing, selling and supplying chipsets and related reference designs and development tools for wireless communications equipment. Spreadtrum supplies these chipsets and related products to wireless communications equipment manufacturers. Spreadtrum has developed the second generation GSM/GPRS/EDGE and third generation TD-SCDMA/HSDPA communication technologies.
2. InterDigital has extensive experience in research, development and design of digital wireless telecommunications systems and components. Among its various wireless telecommunications technologies, InterDigital has developed second generation GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) and [***] communications technology that is compliant with [***].
3. Spreadtrum wants to use and incorporate InterDigital’s technology in its chipsets for Terminal Units. Spreadtrum and InterDigital want to form a cooperative relationship under which InterDigital will license and transfer certain [***]-related technology to Spreadtrum, and will provide Spreadtrum with certain integration, testing and other engineering support required to assist Spreadtrum in implementing InterDigital’s technology in Spreadtrum’s products, under the terms and conditions of this Agreement"
