Replies to post #45091 on InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[Petersimon]

mschere,

"Nokia is licensed with IDCC for 3G. Nokia owe IDCC for their 20,000 WCDMA basestation."

Why don't IDCC sue Nokia for 3G as well and get it over with with one big lawsuit and be done quickly instead of waiting to file later for 3G. just inquiring.

Petersimon

[infinite_q]

mschere, interesting comments in that article about NOK's views on TD-SCDMA - and its IPR ownership.

"The choices that China makes about 3G are going to be very interesting. We think they will make their decisions in the first half of next year. It's very likely that China will go in a major way with W-CDMA, but there will also be a role for TD-SCDMA (a standard for which Siemens and Datang, a state-backed Chinese company, are doing research and development). TD-SCDMA could be a good complement for W-CDMA in hotspot areas. But it will be very interesting to see whether China Unicom (the big mobile operator) goes the W-CDMA route or the CDMA2000 evolution route.

One thing that is a bit misleading is the situation with intellectual property rights. There is a belief that with TD-SCDMA, the patents are only held by Chinese companies. In fact many of the IPRs are held by international companies, including Nokia."