jmspaesq, I don't know how long you have been following the IDCC boards, but if you go back and read all of Data's posts on RB and here you will find that he has NEVER acknowledged that any specific IDCC patent is essential to WCDMA. On the contrary, he has gone out of his way to deny any claims that a specific patent is applicable to WCDMA. This is in stark contrast to his blind faith in Irwin Jacob's claims that QCOM owns the fundamental patents to all forms of CDMA - including 3G.
His response to my initial post was predictable.
I find it amazing that even though IDCC has made over 600 contributions to the 3GPP standards he can't identify a single IDCC patent that applies to those standards. Yet he is a self-proclaimed IDCC long who is in it for 3G.
Maybe he will share his vast technical knowledge with us all and explain why he is so long on this company if he doesn't believe they have an IPR position in 3G.