InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[sophist]

To BSW: I hope you are right that IDCC, with the ERICY settlement, has begun its "growth stage of development". I do not think IDCC was engaging in anything close to public negotiating when it properly disclosed the large amounts it was claiming as owed by NEC and Samsung in their respective arbitration proceedings. In those cases IDCC never said it expected to receive those amounts. It was improper to speculate, based on those amounts, about IDCC revenue income.

The ERICY settlement, however, had Management actively leading investors to really expect large revenue income from Nokia and Samsung, and therein is the "turning point" for which we all await the proof. This is indeed a most exciting, breathless investing moment. Are we all about to witness this "watershed event"? And is this the basis for requesting the new Option Plan, to implement the new opportunities made possible by this event? Perhaps the Option Plan should have been proposed as a conditional one, that such and such an Option Plan will only take effect and be duly authorized upon the agreement and payment of Nokia and Samsung in full as now anticipated from the ERICY settlement.