captainslog: I'm not sure why you keep bringing up the question about IDCC's publically declaring their essential patents. Here are two quotes from their latest 10-K where they state they have essential patents in various standards, have declared those patents as such to the standards bodies, and have stated that they are willing to license them at fair and reasonable rates. That is the way "essential" patents are supposed to declared.
"Based on our history of invention and our extensive participation in the standards bodies, together with the extensive use of our technology innovations across different standards, we believe that our patent portfolio, including patents applied for, is applicable to all of the air interface protocols described in the IMT-2000 standard. We also believe that we will have patents essential to new IEEE 802.11 standards currently under development. We have indicated to the appropriate SDOs that we hold patents and patent applications that are essential for implementation of the present 3G standards in products, and have, in conjunction with such indication, declared that our patented inventions will be available for license under the general principles of fairness, reasonableness and/or non-discrimination. "
"A significant portion of our business involves the licensing of our patents on a worldwide basis. A number of our patented inventions have been included in various digital wireless communications standards. We consider many of these patented inventions to be essential (i.e., required to be used) to build equipment in accordance with the standards.(See, “-Evolution of Wireless Standards”.) Those standards include, but are not limited to, TIA/EIA-54/136, narrowband CDMA (TIA/EIA-95 and similar standards), WCDMA (both FDD and TDD), cdma2000, TD-SCDMA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, PDC, PHS, TETRA and DECT. We also expect that many of our patents and patents expected to issue from existing applications will be commercially important in the actual 2G, 2.5G and 3G product implementations. Accordingly, we believe that companies making, using or selling products compliant with these standards require a license under our patents. We also believe that our patents have application beyond the air interface environment, including to IEEE 802 and smart antenna/interference management technologies."
Why can't the company publically, clearly and definitively state or otherwise represent to the public that they own essential patents in 2G and 3G. Why hide it?
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