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By: zzfan in IDCC | Recommend this post (10)
Wed, 08 Feb 12 8:12 PM | 385 view(s)
Boardmark this board | InterDigital Communications 		Msg. 44544 of 48237
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That is correct Mr Apple. You have to pay to play. You are able to extract your high prices because of the wireless sector that has been rocking along for over twenty years before you barged into the game. You got lucky and managed to take advantage of a best in class licensing team just before you jumped into the sector. You are not paying IDCC anything close to a FRAND rate. You will find out that you are going to owe about 10 billion with a B annually unless you somehow acquire enough patents to cross-license with the entire sector at which time you will owe zero with a Z. Pony up that 8 billion and your troubles are over.

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By: my3sons87 in IDCC
Wed, 08 Feb 12 6:45 PM 		Msg. 44543 of 48237

Apple seeks standard telecom patent rules
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 6:30am PST
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Follow this company has asked for international telecommunications standards to be established over how companies license their patents as legal battles mount around the world over mobile technology ownership.

The Cupertino company (NASDAQ:AAPL) sent a letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute offering suggestions for setting royalty rates for licenses. It said the industry now doesn't have a consistent licensing policy for mobile patents, leading to costly litigation.

Groups like the one Apple wrote to often require patent holders to offer to license technology that has become an industrywide standard.

The Apple letter was sent in November but not previously disclosed.

Companies don't usually disclose what they charge for royalties but in a letter to a California court Apple said that Motorola Mobility Holding Inc. is seeking 2.25 percent of revenue from sales of iPads and iPhones for technology it uses. That has been estimated to be worth about $1 billion last year and billions more in the future for Motorola and its prospective buyer, Google Inc. Google Inc.

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