Replies to post #119769 on InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[rooster]

Maybe NOK sueing us, confirms we have the "engine and transmission"! Maybe they know that they need us but don't want to pay through the nose. So they figure let's fight them and hold us back, so they we will settle for a much lower rate, just to end all this.

[gman1962]

nic,


re: "engine and transmission"

this is one of those things that has been repeated enough and changed to where it is taken as gospel as to what HG said. if someone can post the real interview from back in dec 99, i believe you will see that it was not said that IDCC owned the "engine and transmission" of 3g. the conversation was about the air interface and HG said that that part of 3G was the "engine and transmission" and that IDCC had some (not all) essential patents in that part of the total IP that it will take to make 3G work.

the 'ole "whisper something in someone’s ear and by the time it gets around the circle it is a completely different story"

if i am wrong, mea culpa in advance.

i am sure someone (data?) can post a write up of the conversation.

jmho and recollection

gman

[dooger]

Nicmar

We may have the engine and transmission but we are in a sail boat, getting blown around by the wind!

Dooger