twelvebees
First real intelligent post I have read in a while.
Of course there will be a bidding war. Apple don't want these valuable patents to be asserted against them. Google has the same principal as Apple.
QCOM may still need the IDCC technology to protect their chip position and the 10 MHZ agreement.
Samsung will need to be on the winning consortium which to me be smart throw in a few billion to Google and a few in the Apple consortium to most likely guarantee the winning bid.
Who know what the HTC, ZTE, Huwaei might elect to do. Then we have the Microsoft, and Intel, and Cisco, and Texas istrument, and Dell, and Hewlet packard and don't forget IBM can also use the patents as they owe IDCC for the computers and lap tops.
While we are at it kick in Nokia and Siemens and maybe Ericsson all in some consortium as Nokia owes a damn ton and one would think Ericsson should owe for base station and some handsets. Then we have thew carriers who may have a deep interest in the machine to machine revenue and the compression patents.
The underlying value of IDCC is way past what has been discussed lately. I am hanging on to my 12 billion minimum bid.
Still treemendous value in 3G some of which has not even been tapped, and a whole lot of back money owed.
I hope we hear something soon, but if its longer in my opinion its just more money as the bidders will not quit after a initial bid as falling in the wrong hands can be a disaster to some of these companies. The IDCC current rate would be a rate the infringers would cherish if the sale is for all the company and they have not got a long term license.
JMO
Mickey
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