InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[rmarchma]

Loop re Motorola and Ericy lawsuits you said:

...."1. Has managed to license triggering companies for 2g on the basis of a few patent claims that survived the Mot slaughter only because of a procedural glitch on the part of the Mot lawyers. In fact, of those 11 surviving claims, some were revalidated and still got poured out by Judge Sanders on the basis of no infringement. These same claims were held not to infringe the Mot products after the appeal. This alone should put him in the top of the class because he and his "cronies" took a knife to 9mm shootout and came out alive with added shareholder value. Further, as a result, IDCC with its little knife clutched in its hand is awaiting arbitration decisions against two AK 47 carriers."

I think that you are getting the Motorola and the Ericy lawsuits very mixed-up in your thinking and conclusions. I really can't recall the different patents involved in the Motorola lawsuit, but I don't think that any of the patents involved in Motorola were used in the Ericy lawsuit. The Ericy lawsuit involved 11 claims in 6 different patents from those litigated in Motorola, I believe. Therefore these 11 claims used in the Ericy lawsuit were not surviving claims from the Motorola fiasco, if I am correct.

The six patents involved in the Ericy lawsuit were the '089, five claims from the '194 patent, '358, '705, '420 and the '450. Two of these six patents had been revalidated by the US Patent Office. However, I don't think that either revalidated patent used in Ericy was one of the ones used in Motorola. I think IDCC did get one of the appealed patents in Motorola revalidated, but they did not use that one in the Ericy lawsuit.

If I am incorrect about the patents in Ericy not being the same as those in Motorola, I hope someone will provide correction. However if I am right on this point, then there is no way that your following statements are correct:

..."Has managed to license triggering companies for 2g on the basis of a few patent claims that survived the Mot slaughter....In fact, of those 11 surviving claims, some were revalidated and still got poured out by Judge Sanders on the basis of no infringement. These same claims were held not to infringe the Mot products after the appeal."