Replies to post #99888 on InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[ed_ferrari]

Hardball - what works for me is to ignore all the noise and follow the Occam Razor principle (I love the example provided in the following link)...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor

[Eneerg]

Hardball.. NOK is resisting paying the proportional IPR royalty rate established by S/E, explained below in Nordic Wireless extract.

InterDigital recently announced it received a licensing payment of US 28 million from Sony Ericsson for its TDMA, GSM and GPRS technology. This a part of an earlier settlement. InterDigital is using it settlement with Ericsson companies to demand proportionately same size payments from Nokia and Samsung.

However, Nokia has never admitted the validity of InterDigital’s claims.

http://www.nordicwirelesswatch.com/wireless/story.html?story_id=4044

[laranger]

Hardball.


The industry needs more "one-stop shopping", where patents are concerned.

If you wanted to enter the cell phone business, you'd first have to stop in San Diego and talk to Irwin.

After dedicating a large chunk of your revenue to QCOM, you're patent people would have to check whether you need to license with Ericy, Texas Instruments, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, IDCC, and a host of others.

The patent battles will continue, with second and third tier players taking the hindmost, until consolidation eventually solves the problem.