InterDigital

InterDigital, Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: IDCC S&P MidCap 400 index
Industry	Wireless Patent monetization
Founded	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (1972)
Headquarters	Wilmington, Delaware USA
Key people	Doug Henderson, Chairman of the Board William J. Merritt, President & CEO Richard Brezski CFO
Products	CDMA/WCDMA/LTE chipsets
Revenue	US$416 million (2014)[1]
Net income	US$169 million (2014)[2]
Number of employees	330 (2012) [3]
Slogan	Creating the Living Network.
Website	www.interdigital.com

InterDigital is a company that develops wireless technologies for mobile devices, networks, and services worldwide. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on NASDAQ and is included in the S&P MidCap 400 index.

InterDigital has a portfolio of about 20,000 U.S. and foreign issued patents and patent applications. In 2012 Business Insider put them on their list of the 8 most fearsome patent trolls.^[4] They are frequently called patent trolls because they don't build products, but instead license technology and standards-essential patents to product-manufacturing companies.^[5][6]

Corporate history

Key Dates:^[7]

• 1972: Company is incorporated as International Mobile Machines Corporation.
• 1981: Company goes public.
• 1992: Name is changed to InterDigital Communications Corp.
• 1998: Alliance with Nokia is established.
• 2003: Patent infringement suit is settled with Ericsson.
• 2012: Moved corporate headquarters from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania to Wilmington, Delaware

Locations

InterDigital offices are present in Wilmington Delaware, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Melville New York, San Diego California in USA, The United Kingdom and Montreal Quebec in Canada. In 2015 InterDigital expanded and opened an office in South Korea.

See also

• Nokia
• Patent ambush
• Patent map
• Patent pool
• Patent thicket

References

3. Yahoo Finance Company Profile
4. "Tech's 8 Most Fearsome 'Patent Trolls'". 2012-11-25. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
5. "A Patent Troll By Any Other Name Still Stinks". 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
6. "'Patent trolling' InterDigital CAN ask ITC to ban Nokia mobes: Supreme Court". 2013-10-16. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
7. "International Directory of Company Histories, Vol.61. St. James Press, 2004.".

External links

• Official website