InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[jai]

Walks like a Duck.

I could never understand why Howard would stick his neck out declaring victory and $100 million per year (estimate) that Nokia would pay. It never made sense that he would state this without being sure Nokia would pay. Well they didn't.

Now the numbers mysteriously disappeared and Nokia gets the vacated orders re-instated. My opinion is one that these orders will help Nokia reduce past due amounts significantly in arbitration, same as sjratty's post.

I could be wrong and I hope I am.

I've said this before and I'll say it again. I would give up 2002 and 2003 revenues for a settlement today leaving 2004 and beyond in place.

"Posted by: sjratty
In reply to: None Date:6/10/2004 1:34:49 PM
Post #of 72303

My best educated guess from all of this is that Nokia has some sales using a single base station system and some that don't. Nokia may argue to the panel that it does in fact owe IDCC a royalty, but only on the non-single system phones (because it shouldnt have to pay on products that IDCC can't license). As a result, the amount of $ it owes is much less than IDCC says.