Would anyone like someone or would you prefer to suck on the bitter lemon. Me I will drink the lemonade.
As I recall this was only a look at strategic alternatives that did not pan out at this time. Happens all the time in business. Now if the company announced they were having a fire sale and no one wanted it then that would be a major blow.
In fact, for all we know the bidders conspired not to bid high. So IDCC has to continue to execute on their business plan.