InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

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mickeybritt: NOKIA's decline in share price is NOT THE RESULT OF a huge disbursement of cash to IDCC or any anticipation of a ban.

It is the result of continued decline in sales, cheaper products being brought to the market with smaller margins, and many bad decisions by the prior administration on the direction of the company.

IF I were Nokia's Elop, I would ramp up production of their phones for import to the USA. I would manufacture millions and millions of their best phone lines and ship them to the USA before any ban is implemented (if implemented at all).

I don't think a 'ban' could stop the sale of existing invnetories already in the USA; rather, it could stop importation of additional phones as of the date of the import ban.

Once on the shelves of AT&T, Verizon, WalMart, Best-Buy, and other retailers, I doubt whether they would pull them off their shelves and stop selling the Nokia phones.

By the time the import ban would be in effect, NOKIA would be manufacturing a new version of the phone, probably under a 'partnership' with some US company, and labelled under their name. or not using IDCC technology!