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02/28/06 11:43 PM

#146729 RE: bulldzr #146724

Dzr you asked:

What does this mean to shareholders? Does it mean that our tax loss carry forwards will be used to help offset the expense of excercised options? No Is this a positive in that we can use some of these credits earned when the company wasn't making money to partially cover the present expense to the company of said options?It doesn't impact our income statement in any way so it will be lost on wall street IMO Since the tax loss carry forwards cannot be used to relieve "our book tax expense" is using it in this way a good thing for shareholders in your opinion? Overall the deferred tax asset is a good thing when we start to make money in that it will ultimately reduce the amount of cash that is paid out for taxes. The bad news is it will not impact the income statement and nobody but accountants will have any chance of understanding what it all means anyway. In reality, the only thing that will matter for IDCC is to get more licensees so the top line, revenue, grows rapidly. When that happens nobody is going to care about the deferred taxes IMO.