Replies to post #96975 on InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[JeffreyHF]

Ziploc,I think it`s premature to conclude there will be no settlement. In litigation, deals are made at the intersection of definitive deadlines and leverage. May 31 is the deadline, and who has how much leverage is best known to the respective parties. Only IDCC and Nokia management, and their engineering/legal advisors, know who has the stronger hand to play,what the contracts say, and how the panel reacted to the evidence. Skilled trial attorneys instinctively know who is winning, based upon their perceptions of how the proofs went in, and the questions/rulings of the panel.No one on this message board can have a clue concerning those crucial aspects.
I would like to believe that if IDCC appears to have the better of Nokia in the arbitration, it is using that in global negotiations encompassing 2G and 3G, but who indeed is more likely to prevail, and to what extent, can only be known by the parties.There is plenty of time to cut a deal.

[vg_future]

ziploc_1, how can you conclude that? Trying to understand if you are seeing any indications. These kind of settlements usually are very complicated and take longer time (covering all fronts and leaving very little wiggle space). Remember the Ericy settlement, I guess it almost took 2 months after they decided to settle (they pushed the trial date by 2 months in Jan, 2003 and the settlement was announced in Mar, 2003).
My point, settlement could still be in works.
With this company, a negative news can leak (as we saw during Mar, 2004 earnings and we had a $10 hair cut)....but a positive news never leaks (llok at the volume during the week before Ericy settlement)

-vg_future