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...Last year the NDRC began investigating InterDigital, a US wireless technology company, after complaints by Chinese companies....
...InterDigital, the San Diego-based intellectual property group, and Qualcomm, the US mobile chip company, have also complained....
...Interdigital has had mixed success at the ITC with its campaign to get handset makers to pay up....
...“This will open a floodgate and I suspect that Nokia, Google, Interdigital, Rockstar and some of the other industry consortia will also jump on the bandwagon,” wrote Richard Windsor of research group Radio...
...An investigation into another US wireless licensing concern whose technology is used in 4G mobile networks, Interdigital, was dropped in May after the company bowed to demands to revise its licensing terms...
...In June, Interdigital, a mobile technology patent company, struck a licensing agreement with Samsung worth hundreds of millions of dollars and is pressing Apple for a similar deal....
...“It’s highly unusual and, we think highly improper,” said William Merritt, chief executive officer of Interdigital....
...Before joining MiiCs, Mr Boles spent 12 years managing intellectual property at Interdigital, a dedicated creator, licenser and litigator of wireless patents, which struck a $375m deal with Intel last year...
...The companies targeted in InterDigital’s latest suit have yet to respond to the allegations. InterDigital has a long record of pursuing companies it claims have infringed its patents....
...Monday’s news that the InterDigital sale has been called off suggests that the bubble is deflating....
...Staying with Google, The Wall Street Journal reports that the company is in preliminary talks with InterDigital about a possible acquisition of the wireless technology developer and licence group....
...The scramble to re-evaluate patents in the wake of the Nortel Networks deal has also focused attention on InterDigital, a mobile phone technology designer that some analysts have suggested could now become...
...Mr Icahn and InterDigital have been among those dangling the 4G carrot....
...Nokia also had an ITC run-in in 2007 with Interdigital, which alleged that Nokia was infringing patents on third-generation wireless transmission. The ITC decided in favour of Nokia....
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