InterDigital (IDCC) Settles Samsung Patent Licensing Disputes

November 25, 2008 9:34 AM EST

InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDCC) today announced that InterDigital Communications, LLC and InterDigital's patent licensing subsidiaries have entered into a binding term sheet with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and its affiliates, including Samsung Electronics America, Inc., that resolves the outstanding arbitration issues involving Samsung's sale of 2G products, as well as the 3G patent licensing disputes for Samsung's sales of products through 2012.

Under the terms of the term sheet, InterDigital agreed to grant Samsung a royalty-bearing license covering Samsung's sale of all 3G products (including products built under both the WCDMA and cdma2000 standards and their related extensions) through 2012. The agreement also ended the payment disputes regarding Samsung's royalty obligations for sales of 2G products.

Under the terms of the term sheet, Samsung has approximately 45 days to elect between two defined payment options, and the term sheet contemplates the parties will enter into agreements incorporating the terms of the term sheet. Subject to Samsung's selection of a payment option and payment of the first installment of payments due in early 2009, the parties will move to end all litigations and arbitration proceedings ongoing between them.

InterDigital, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design and development of digital wireless technologies and products for use in cellular and wireless IEEE 802 related products.

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