amrwonderful, you've hit the nail on the head here. IDCC has a business plan which will need validation from the courts and arbitrators in order to succeed fully by getting the big vendors on board. The big boys simply don't want to pay until they have to.
For example, the small wireless consulting firm that I own with my partner is still waiting for a big payment from "Company B" for work we completed five months ago. We have to notarize every change order, they constantly mess up the dollar amounts and the type of work performed that are listed on our change orders, and just last week they said that they didn't have any copies of the 100 or so reports we wrote. Even though we sent three written copies plus two CDs for every report. Company B is a huge, private construction firm that is one of the largest international infrastructure firms in the world (Hoover Dam, Big Dig, Iraq, etc.). I am sure that they do this to all of their small vendors while demanding that their clients pay within 45 days, so they can maximize their earned interest.
IDCC is still in the pre-1999 QCOM stage, and the validation date keeps getting pushed out. It is a very difficult business model to enforce, just look at Rambus.
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