InterDigital

InterDigital, Inc.

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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	Terry Clontz, Chairman & CEO William J. Merritt, President & Director Scott A. McQuilkin CFO
Products	CDMA/WCDMA/LTE chipsets
Revenue	US$652 million (2012)
Net income	US$279 million (2012)
Number of employees	330 (2012)
Slogan	The life inside anything wireless.
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. They are frequently called patent trolls because instead of innovating and then building products, they file broad patents on basic communications technology and then sue others for independently coming up with the same innovation.

Corporate history

Key Dates:

• 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

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

External links

• Official website