InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[habu]

KYO bought QCOM handset mfg and access to all of the QCOM patents, including CDMA2000. CDMA2000 is the one standard that ALL thought QCOM owned, so KYO should be able to mfg to CDMA2000 without a problem. Since IDCC has been trying to license for ALL standards, including CDMA2000,(which all thought the Q owned) then a single contract for a single standard that all thought KYO would never need would send a very big message to all. The reason for the single standard contract was to thwart those that would say KYO signed for all standards and IDCC threw CDMA2000 in because it is part of the convinience license, but KYO did not really need it. With this one contract, all ambiguity has been removed. Others can no longer say I will sign only after you take out CDMA2000 and lower to percent a bit.

this is of course, my opinion