InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[quartzman0]

Ghors,

I appreciate and thank you for you legal insight into IDCC's affairs. However, I do not agree with your perspectives of the legal system. What you stated in this message is true with one very big omission. The lawyers have made the legal system so complex and so time consuming that it very often only works for the very rich. Average working peoplke cannot afford all of the protections that you cite. Thus, well healed individuals or organizations can "buy" their way out of an adverse situation. Average people are punished.

As a personal example, I have been party to the recent spate of "investor" class action lawsuits against wall street organizations who mislead investors in the 1990's. So far I have received less than $100 for tens of thousands of losses, but the lawyers receieved ten of millions. How can you say that the legal system works, when the benefits don't go to the people who were damaged. Many of these suits are greedy lawyers piling on for quick profits.

There is a basic and fundamental imbalance to the legal system that we are seeing played out in the Nokia / IDCC arena. Nokia would have long been victorious if IDCC wasn't well funded - ironically some of that funding came from Nokia's 1999 engineering contract. Big bucks win.

Q