What Corp_Buyer was trying to do was simply expose Harry's world. If these invesntion are worth $2 to $4 billion or $45 to $90 a share we won't see that value in our lifetimes. Sad to say mschere didn't. Harry has got this game rigged. Like playing poker at a crooked casino. The poison pill and the staggered board fend off all possible technologies companies that would otherwise be looking at IDCC as a potential takeover or investment. Hell MSFT and CSCO have about $90 billion is short term money. They could pay $2 billion without even blinking an eye.
So the argrument is that they would get then company on the cheap and Harry is protecting us. The only thing Harry is protecting is his RSU piggy bank and again my belief is he has instructed his management team to hold onto the cash so he can take the company public and use our cash to buy the company for himself.