TechV, your intension is good. Most investors on this board can't do anything about what is going on behind closed doors. Your suggestion about having a beer or two implies ignorance is bliss, is good.
But your examples may be short sighted, since we already know the weakness and strength of IDCC. We can filter out the poor choices like acquisition annd alliance. With 800M, you cannot get anything worth while, to make up for the lost ground experienced in the last few weeks. The heavy weights are not going to be bothered with such arrangements. They see IDCC has value, and is untethered. Such clean (no one is suing) value is ideal to buy. For IDCC, sell the whole co. Is ideal. Sell most of it is alright too, and let the unplaced employees go fend for themselves has been done before. IDCC severed a whole division when WM was appointed CEO. So, after you sort out what makes no sense to do, you will be left with "sell".
Now, what can a heavy weight do? I saw a picture taken of Obama in Silicon Valley with many executives including Steve Jobs. Any one of them around the table can do the job (except Steve will have to be represented by Tim Cook). The person can approach the president's cabinet, in particular the secretary of State Clinton, and let her drop a hint to Finland. Let them know that Nokia is unfair to US's IDCC, and US cannot in clear conscience step aside. That will clear the hurdle in the political front. She is within her power to negotiate a better treaty to benefit the people of Finland as a favor on return. When the news reaches the judge, Nokia will be forced on all sides to comply with justice. That is a scenario if The heavy weight bought IDCC.
It is getting late, but if you are still up worrying, let me tell you my experience with another billionaire. He is a friend of a friend. He invited me to fly with him along with 10 of his advisors to a large city that was slated to be turned over to another country. The real estate there dropped about 50%. He and one of his close advisors walked around the most congested area of the city, with me tagging along. The two were pointing to the high rise buildings, talking about which one to buy. Later back in the hotel, I asked him why buy when everyone there was planning to leave? He said that most of them could not leave. That was why. He expected to get his investment back within 5 years. He had inside information that the new government will not interfere with his properties, so he was confident that his plan would work. And it did.
On another occasion when I was leaving one country to another with this billionaire, the customs stopped him to check his briefcase. That case had nothing but filled with large bills, $100s and $500s. Those days the really large bills were quite common. He just turned to his assistant just in front of him and said, "I thought you took care of that", and walked on. Taking money out of that country was not illegal, as long as you declare it. At his level, he can pass the blame to his assistant. It is similar to Steve Jobs's case on suspected stock option misdating, where the two finance assistants took the blame. The brief case was returned with all the money intact. This billionaire was also a White House overnight guest at sometime. The point is that with a lot of money, you can do things that seems impossible. If you don't have enough, then you can't even collect what people owe you, like in the case of IDCC and Nokia. So, IDCC needs to sell to some entities that has a heavy weight.
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