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InterDigital U.S. company, known as the United Kingdom Gitzo domestic companies or American companies in digital technology. According to InterDigital's web site describes the history, the company set up earlier, 70 to 80 years to develop a TDMA WLL system, started out 90 years through the acquisition of a series of CDMA mastered the core technology, but over the past decade, the company's transformation from the equipment manufacturer for intellectual property companies to patent products as the company's major profit. The company is not as much known to outsiders, but in the communications industry, have become all the major equipment manufacturers have not ignored the company.
InterDigital's intellectual property rights in transition for the company in the wind unboiled water in the industryOnwards, with its excellent R & D capability and excellent method patents reserves right equipment manufacturing companies conducted a series of successful patent litigation: Ericsson, Apple, RIM, Samsung, LG, Nokia, Panasonic, Sanyo and other companies need to InterDigital a lot of money to pay patent licensing fees, of which Samsung to pay InterDigital a royalty fee of 134 million U.S. dollars; Nokia 253 million U.S. dollars; LG 285 billion; Apple for 56 million U.S. dollars.
According to InterDigital's 2009 two quarterly revenue of 74.9 million U.S. dollars, of which the patent licensing fees collected for the 72.7 million U.S. dollars, the rest of the technical service income of 2.2 million U.S. dollars, showing that InterDigital company's main profit model is through the licensing fee . InterDigital is currently worth 9.8 billion U.S. dollars, operating margin and high-pass basically the same as 30% ~ 35% range, due to InterDigital's earnings outlook than solely relying on the risk of patent litigation, InterDigital's PE of 30 +, lower than the high - Pass the PE 40 +. Barclays BGI's asset management subsidiary, InterDigital is currently the largest shareholder (BGI is also a high-pass second-largest institutional shareholders).
Introduction The purpose of InterDigital would have liked to domestic equipment manufacturers will pay attention to the following questions:
1. InterDigital, NTP's U.S. patents and other patent arms frequently over a large equipment manufacturers, the fact that Chinese equipment manufacturers need to attract the full attention of those intellectual property rights well in advance the company's research and preventive measures, as China's market share of equipment manufacturers increases, these patents the company will sooner or later eye on Chinese companies.
2. InterDigital algorithm to more than 300 researchers supported by the patent assets, 30 percent of its profit margins and 9.800 million market value. Of China's major equipment manufacturers and the patent Although reserves are tens of thousands of dollars, but its patent assets are totally did not gain the return on this point more worthy of too much emphasis on the number of patents in China, manufacturers will InterDigital company as benchmarking to learn.
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