ti.....great to see you posting and offering up your scenarios.
I posted the below in regard to a theory of QCOM actually buying the entire company at anything near the dollar figures being thrown around. I have no doubt that they have done the analysis multiple times through the years at lower prices....and passed.
IMO....there is no near or mid term or even long term ROI at this point for Q to do it alone.....for a company that could not follow industry directive and disclose ex-ante rates....or successfully begin to monetize their own 4G portfolio
edited....stealing from Slacker's post this morning...."There should be other entities that are able to derive FAR more value from Interdigital's patents than Qualcomm."