InterDigital Q2 2026 Earnings Report

InterDigital EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $4.62
• Consensus EPS: $0.90
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$3.72
• One Year Ago EPS: $6.52

InterDigital Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $260.17 million
• Expected Revenue: $143.10 million
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$117.07 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: -13.40%

InterDigital Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2026
• Date: 7/30/2026
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, July 30, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 10:00AM ET

InterDigital (NASDAQ:IDCC) is a mobile and video technology research and development company that designs and licenses wireless communications and video compression innovations. Its patent portfolio encompasses key standards across 3G, 4G LTE and 5G wireless networks, as well as video and multimedia technologies. By focusing on fundamental technology creation rather than device manufacturing, InterDigital delivers core intellectual property to smartphone manufacturers, chipset vendors and telecommunications operators worldwide.

The company’s principal services include patent licensing, technology evaluation and consulting. InterDigital works closely with device makers and network infrastructure providers to integrate its patented technologies into commercial products and services. Additionally, the company contributes to international standards bodies such as the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and offers test and measurement solutions that support network performance verification and interoperability testing.

Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, InterDigital maintains research and development centers across North America, Europe and Asia. Its global footprint enables collaboration with industry partners and provides access to a diverse talent pool in wireless system design, signal processing and video coding. Under the leadership of President and Chief Executive Officer William J. Merritt, InterDigital continues to advance its R&D efforts and expand its licensing business model, serving an ecosystem of technology customers in more than 100 countries.

InterDigital Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: InterDigital significantly exceeded Q2 expectations, reporting $260.2 million in revenue, $184.1 million in adjusted EBITDA, and $4.62 in non-GAAP EPS, all above the high end of guidance.
• Positive Sentiment: Management raised 2026 guidance to $775 million–$845 million in revenue, $469 million–$529 million in adjusted EBITDA, and $10.85–$12.81 in non-GAAP EPS, while ARR reached a record $625.7 million, up 13% year over year.
• Positive Sentiment: The company reached an agreement with Amazon to enter into a patent license covering devices and services including Prime Video, resolving pending litigation; final economic terms will be determined through 18–24 months of binding arbitration.
• Positive Sentiment: InterDigital won two Unified Patent Court injunctions against Disney covering HEVC video-encoding patents across 11 European countries, strengthening its negotiating position in seeking a long-term license agreement.
• Neutral Sentiment: Q3 revenue from existing contracts is expected to be $154 million–$158 million, with any new deals or enforcement outcomes additive, while elevated intellectual-property enforcement costs are expected to continue despite the Amazon agreement.

Presentation

[Operator]

Thank you for standing by. My name is Kathleen, and I will be your conference operator for today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the InterDigital Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, just press the star one again. Thank you. Now, I would like to turn the call over to Raiford Garrabrant, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

[Raiford Garrabrant, VP of Investor Relations at InterDigital]

Thank you, Kathleen, good morning, everyone. Welcome to InterDigital's Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. I am Raiford Garrabrant, VP of Investor Relations for InterDigital. With me on today's call are Liren Chen, our President and CEO, and Rich Brezski, our CFO. Consistent with prior calls, we will offer some highlights about the quarter and the company then open the call up for questions. For additional details, you can access our earnings release and slide presentation that accompany this call on our investor relations website. Before we begin our remarks, I need to remind you that in this call, we will make forward-looking statements regarding our current beliefs, plans, and expectations, which are not guarantees of future performance and are made only as of the date hereof.

[Raiford Garrabrant, VP of Investor Relations at InterDigital]

Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from results and events contemplated by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include those described in the Risk Factors sections of our 2025 annual report on Form 10-K and in our other SEC filings. In addition, today's presentation may contain references to non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are included in the supplemental materials posted to the investor relations section of our website. With that taken care of, I will turn the call over to Liren.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Thank you, Raiford. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. We have delivered an outstanding quarter with continued momentum across each part of our business. We achieved revenue of $260 million, Adjusted EBITDA of $184 million, and non-GAAP EPS of $4.62, all far exceeded the top end of our guidance. We also increased our annualized recurring revenue to a record of $626 million, an increase of 13% year-over-year, keeping us well on track to reach our goal of $1 billion plus ARR by 2030. Building on the strength of our second quarter result, the increased business momentum, and the opportunity to drive more progress over the balance of this year, we have raised our 2026 full year guidance to between $775 million-$845 million, up $85 million at the midpoint. As in previous quarters, Rich will cover our financial performance in more detail.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

The highlights of the quarter were the important milestones we achieved in our streaming and cloud service licensing program. I'll cover our new agreement with Amazon first. We have previously announced we have agreed to enter into a patent license agreement with Amazon, covering Amazon's devices and services, including Amazon's Prime Video, with the final terms to be determined through arbitration. We expect the process will take roughly 18-24 months to complete. As part of the agreement, we have resolved all pending litigations between us. The Amazon agreement is an important milestone in our goal to drive growth through our streaming and cloud service licensing program and to hit our goal of $300 million-plus in ARR from this program by 2030. It's also a clear recognition of the value of foundational video technology in both devices and services.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

As I have said many times, our preference is always to conclude license agreement through bilateral negotiation and when disputes do arise, to use binding arbitration to decide the final terms of an agreement. This is the path we have followed recently in our arbitration with both Samsung and Lenovo. Staying on the streaming and cloud service licensing program, we continue to make excellent progress in our enforcement effort against Disney. During the quarter, we were awarded our first injunction against Disney from Europe's Unified Patent Court. The court ruled that Disney infringed one of our patents covering video encoding technology related to HEVC and confirmed the validity of our patent. In addition, the court found that Disney was an unwilling licensee. The UPC is a pan-European court, and the injunction applies across 11 EU countries, including major markets like France, Germany, Italy, and Netherlands.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Last week, we received our second injunction against Disney from UPC covering another patent that covers video coding encoding related to HEVC. With the first UPC injunction, this decision apply across the same 11 countries in the EU. In this decision, the court was highly critical of Disney's conduct, again found Disney was an unwilling licensee, and found that InterDigital has acted in a fair manner in the licensing negotiations. These are the latest injunctions that we have win against Disney, and we are working with the court to enforce them. We believe they are important step to reach a long-term license agreement with Disney on fair terms that reflect the value of our technology that enable Disney to build one of the world's leading streaming business.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Our recent round of success against Disney is also an indication of the quality of our research and our patent portfolio, as multiple courts have found our patent to be valid and infringed. While we always prefer a completed license agreement through bilateral negotiation, when we do enforce our patents, we have a strong track record of reaching agreement in the end. As we continue to build momentum across our licensing program, in the second quarter, we signed a new IoT licensing agreement with a leading fintech company in the payment space. The agreement covers a licensed point-of-sale devices and our cellular and Wi-Fi patents. After the end of the quarter, we closed another new license with KEBA to cover the company's EV chargers also under our cellular and Wi-Fi patents.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Both agreements are good demonstrations of the reach of our technology and the range of industries that depends on the standard we help build. Wireless connectivity is now embedded in an expanding number of verticals, and these deals are a sign of broader IoT opportunity ahead of us. We believe this trend will only continue with the development and rolling out of 6G, which is why we continue to invest in our research engine and in our leadership of global standards. The quality of research across wireless, radio, and AI, combined with our standard leadership, continues to be major competitive advantage for us. In the second quarter, one of our senior wireless engineers was elected vice chair of a key working group in 3GPP, which is the standard organization that leads the development of each generation of mobile, including 6G.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Our total standard leadership position is now well over 100. We remain one of the only three companies in the world, and the only U.S. company with multiple chair positions across 3GPP. These positions help inform the direction of research and place us in an even stronger position to define key technology standard across wireless, radio, and AI. I was also pleased to see that during the quarter, we were recognized by Business Insider as one of America's high growth companies. This award recognized the progress we have made in recent years and the momentum we are carrying into the second half of 2026. With that, I'll hand it over to Rich, who will walk you through the numbers in more detail.

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

Thanks, Liren. I'm thrilled to report that Q2 was another outstanding quarter for InterDigital and an important milestone in the expansion of our licensing programs. Our results were well above the guidance we provided on our last call. They included quantifiable progress towards our goal of $300 million+ of ARR from streaming and cloud services by 2030. This milestone was driven by our new agreement with Amazon. As Liren discussed, Amazon has agreed to enter into a patent license agreement covering both services and devices, including Prime Video, with the final terms to be determined through binding arbitration. The agreement also resolves the pending litigation between the parties. Total revenue for the quarter was $260.2 million, compared with our Q2 guidance range of $139 million-$143 million.

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

Revenue included $103.7 million of catch-up revenue, while annualized recurring revenue, or ARR, increased 13% year-over-year to a record $625.7 million. Looking at revenue by program, smartphone revenue was $122.7 million, CE, IoT, and auto revenue was $27.5 million. Streaming and cloud services contributed $110 million. Let me take a second to discuss revenue recognition for Amazon. While Amazon has agreed to enter into a patent license agreement, the final terms, including the value of the agreement, will be determined through arbitration. Under GAAP, we recognize revenue in this circumstance based on a conservative estimate of the consideration we expect to be entitled. While the final outcome of the arbitration cannot be assured at this stage, we currently expect that any adjustment to revenue at the conclusion of the process is more likely to increase rather than reduce recognized revenue.

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

This is similar to the approach we took in 2023 after Samsung agreed to take a new license effective January 1st, 2023, while the final terms were still being determined through binding arbitration. In that case, we recorded revenue based on a conservative estimate during the arbitration period, and then recorded an adjustment once the final arbitration decision was received. With respect to Amazon, if the final arbitration award differs from the cumulative revenue recognized during the arbitration process, we will record the resulting adjustment when the award is finalized. Turning to profitability, Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $184.1 million, compared with our guidance range of $67 million-$73 million. Our Adjusted EBITDA margin was 71%, compared with the roughly 50% margin implied in our prior outlook.

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

Operating expenses increased $25.8 million year-over-year, primarily due to an increase in intellectual property enforcement costs and performance-based compensation driven by business success. GAAP diluted EPS for the quarter was $3.40, compared with our guidance range of $0.80-$0.97. Non-GAAP EPS was $4.62, compared with our guidance range of $1.41-$1.60. Cash generation was strong, with cash from operations of $82.5 million and free cash flow of $66.6 million. As we noted on our last call, we expect a collection of accounts receivable from new agreements signed in Q1 to drive strong cash flow in Q2, and our second quarter cash generation was consistent with that expectation. Consistent with our capital allocation priorities, we continue to invest for growth, maintain a fortress balance sheet, and return excess capital to shareholders.

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

During the quarter, we returned $41.1 million to shareholders through $23 million of share repurchases and $18 million of dividends. We ended the quarter with cash equivalents and short-term investments of $1.1 billion. Our Q2 results again demonstrate the leverage in our subscription-based licensing model. The long-term fixed-fee nature of most of our agreements provides visibility into our business, supports ongoing investment in research and portfolio development, and gives us the flexibility to pursue opportunities across our licensing programs while continuing to return capital to shareholders. Looking forward to Q3, we expect $154 million-$158 million of revenue from existing contracts. Any revenue from any new agreements or enforcement decisions over the balance of the quarter would be additive to these amounts. Based only on existing contracts, we expect Adjusted EBITDA margin of about 57% and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $1.94-$2.13.

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

In addition, we expect another strong quarter of free cash flow in Q3, driven by scheduled payments due under existing agreements. As Liren noted, we are increasing our full-year 2026 guidance. We now expect revenue in the range of $775 million-$845 million, up from our prior range of $675 million-$775 million. That is an increase of $85 million at the midpoint. We now expect full-year 2026 Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $469 million-$529 million, with non-GAAP EPS in a range of $10.85-$12.81. As we have said before, we continue to think about the full year through a multipath approach with different combinations of existing contracts, renewals, new agreements, and enforcement outcomes that can deliver financial results within our guided ranges. With that, I'll turn it back to Raiford.

[Raiford Garrabrant, VP of Investor Relations at InterDigital]

Thanks, Rich. Before we move to Q&A, I'd like to mention that we'll be attending a number of investor events in Q3, including the Jefferies Semiconductor, IT Hardware, and Communications Hardware Conference in Chicago, the Midwest IDEAS Conference in Chicago, and the Sidoti Small Cap Conference, which is virtual. Please reach out to your representatives at those firms if you'd like to schedule a meeting. We are ready to take questions.

[Operator]

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. If you have dialed in and would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad to raise your hand and join the queue. If you would like to withdraw your question, simply press the star one again. Your first question comes from the line of Scott Searle from Roth Capital. Please go ahead.

[Scott Searle, Analyst at Roth Capital]

Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. Congrats on the quarter and congrats on the progress that you're making on the streaming side of the equation, particularly with Amazon.

[Raiford Garrabrant, VP of Investor Relations at InterDigital]

Thanks, Scott.

[Scott Searle, Analyst at Roth Capital]

Liren, maybe just to dive in on that front. You've had some important milestones with Disney as well now with two separate injunctions awarded by UPC. Can you take us through the timelines and the next steps? It sounds like you are working with the courts in terms of that injunction and otherwise, but what are the various avenues here to move forward, if you could give us some idea? From a broader perspective, a couple years ago when you guys articulated the opportunity for streaming services, you estimated the market at $300 million, which you guys have reiterated today, and I think that was more of a baseline kind of opportunity.

[Scott Searle, Analyst at Roth Capital]

I'm wondering now as you're getting in and you're starting to get some of those data points with the baseline from Amazon in terms of what you're seeing from a rev rec standpoint, as well as the expansion of the marketplace, is that opportunity actually expanding beyond the $300 million that you guys initially talked about?

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Yeah. Hey, Scott. Good morning. Yes. Let me explain the UPC process as well as the broader view for the overall market. As I mentioned in my prepared remark, we have done very well in our enforcement campaign. As you are aware, we have received multiple injunctions from different jurisdictions, with the latest one being UPC, one received during the Q2, one received, frankly, only last week. We, in the process, are enforcing them, and there is a process in those court system for us to go through the process. We do feel our patents are extraordinarily important. As you are aware, both the patents we received for the UPC injunction are related to the core features of encoding technique related to HEVC that we believe to have a lot of value.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

I do feel, and by the court also found Amazon to be unwilling licensee that we are conducting our license fairly. As I commented before, as we frankly commented in our press release, we do believe the right outcome is for Amazon to take a license. That's fair to both parties.

[Scott Searle, Analyst at Roth Capital]

Disney.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

For Disney, I'm sorry. We absolutely think we are on track to do so. Okay. Regarding the broader picture for the licensing opportunity in streaming and cloud services, notice that when we disclose this opportunity in the Investor Day, we said we believe this opportunity will be a $300 million-plus ARR by 2030. We do emphasize there's a plus sign to it. This is not an endpoint. This is essentially a milestone point we see. We believe we are executing really well. Obviously, there's still multiple years in this journey, and we have to keep on focusing on doing everything we can to execute on our strategy.

[Scott Searle, Analyst at Roth Capital]

Very helpful. If I could, just to follow up in terms of the level of engagement that you have now with Amazon on the books, how are the conversations proceeding with other large streaming vendors? Is this a wait-and-see for them to see the final outcome and potentially the pricing as it relates to Amazon, or they continue on their own parallel tracks? A quick question for Rich. Just in terms of the OpEx costs, I believe this quarter, the enforcement costs were pretty high, up substantially, I think, from the first quarter. Given the progress that you've made now with Amazon, some of the wins you've had with Disney, how should we be thinking about litigation and enforcement costs as well as the broader OpEx as we're going into the second half of this year? Thanks.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Hey, Scott, let me take the first half. We are proceeding well with other negotiation. Frankly, we have a strategy to approach all the major customers in both the SVOD as well as the AVOD space. We are proceeding well. I do believe people are paying attention to our progress with the Amazon discussion as well as the Disney progress. I'm hoping to report more progress as we are proceeding with the other negotiations in coming weeks and in coming quarters.

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

Yeah. Scott, regarding the Amazon moving to arbitration and the outlook for enforcement costs, certainly one of the benefits of arbitration is it kind of ring-fences things. It can be more efficient. That's definitely a benefit, and we expect that to impact what we otherwise would have expected from a multi-jurisdictional litigation campaign against Amazon. At the same time, we have a number of other enforcement actions ongoing. While I think it's helpful, I don't want to oversell it that expenses would come down too much in that area while we have these other cases ongoing.

[Scott Searle, Analyst at Roth Capital]

Great. Thank you. I'll get back in the queue.

[Operator]

Your next question comes from the line of Arjun of William Blair. Please go ahead.

[Arjun Bhatia, Analyst at William Blair]

Yep, perfect. Thank you. Congrats to you guys on the Amazon deal. I know that's an important milestone for the company. Liren, maybe if I can kind of touch on a few of the points that you were talking about in the prior set of questions. Do you have a sense now that, with Amazon having reached an agreement with final terms still to be determined, the positive sort of results you're seeing with Disney litigation, do you sense that you could sort of push on the pedal a little bit more to litigate against other streaming services where maybe they're not coming to the table to negotiate? Or how do you view sort of your position in this market now, given that you have some positive outcomes and certainly courts and Amazon as a counterparty has agreed to the sort of legitimacy of your IP?

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Yeah. Hey, Arjun, good morning. As I commented earlier, we feel really good about where we are. Obviously, the Amazon agreement we reached is a major milestone, and we have been proceeding well with Disney. I do believe the rest of the industry is paying attention. As of now, I don't have status to update on our litigation or enforcement strategy. As I commented before, we always prefer to get deal done through bilateral negotiation, and we are patient and frankly, fairly balancing those negotiations. As of now, I don't have an update on other litigation possibilities.

[Arjun Bhatia, Analyst at William Blair]

Okay. That's fair enough. Rich, I had a couple questions for you just on the Amazon rev rec dynamics that you laid out. Is there an initial agreement or initial terms with Amazon or what you're recognizing in the sort of $60 million recurring revenue and the catch up? Are those all purely estimates, or are there some terms that you've agreed with on Amazon initially that get finalized in arbitration?

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

Yeah, Arjun, some of those details at this stage are confidential. I'll go back and emphasize some of the comments I made that we are basing that revenue on an estimate, while we're in arbitration with some terms, including the final value of the license agreement to be determined by that arbitration. That's similar to, at that high level, the situation we were in a couple of years ago with Samsung.

[Arjun Bhatia, Analyst at William Blair]

Okay. Got it. It would include presumably the catch up payment or the catch up revenue that you pointed out this quarter. Like that is also subject to arbitration, is that correct?

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

Yeah. Well, again, it's the value of the agreement, that would be part of that value.

[Arjun Bhatia, Analyst at William Blair]

Okay. All right. Got it. Then, just final one, maybe Liren for you on Disney. Some of the recent injunctions from UPC sound fairly material. Meaning if it's related to video encoding and HEVC, and there's an injunction, it seems like it may result in significantly sort of degraded service from Disney. What is their response to how this is now playing out in the courts and do you expect that these are more material than prior injunctions that you've had with Disney earlier in 2026?

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Yeah. Hey, Arjun. You are aware, when we started the enforcement campaign, we had a comprehensive strategy. We intentionally picked patent cover in different area technology, and asserted them in various different jurisdictions. We are very happy with the win we have. As I mentioned earlier, we are in the process of enforcing them. By the way, we also noticed there's from third-party report, certain key services are being disrupted, in European market, including 4K HD content, which I believe are very important features to their premium tier customers. By the way, we also noticed there's report of consumer protection agents investigation that's being either triggered or discussed. I do believe those are important services, which again, reflect on the foundational nature of our technology and our patent and, frankly, indicated the fair value that we are trying to receive.

[Arjun Bhatia, Analyst at William Blair]

Okay. Perfect. That's it for me. Congrats again, guys.

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

Thanks.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Thanks, Arjun.

[Operator]

Your next question comes from the line of Kevin Garrigan of Jefferies. Please go ahead.

[Kevin Garrigan, Analyst at Jefferies]

Yeah. Hey, good morning, team, and let me echo my congrats. Hey, just looking at your guide for flat Q3, step up in Q4, and I know you came into the year with $92 million of renewals. I think you had said two-thirds of that was already renewed. So if I'm right, you're expecting the final one-third of those renewals really in Q4. Can you just remind us which end markets those renewals are across?

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

Yeah. Kevin, when we talk about our full year guidance, I mentioned that we have a multi-path approach, which could include renewals, or if for whatever reason we don't execute on those renewals, we have other opportunities as well. We see a couple of different paths to get there. We're not locked in on any one. We're working across all those opportunities.

[Kevin Garrigan, Analyst at Jefferies]

Yep. Okay. Got it. Then with Amazon being the first streaming agreement, whatever the terms come to be, is this the framework for how we should think about terms for other streaming agreements?

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

I think at this point, we're really just estimating the revenue, based on the eventual arbitration outcome. As far as getting into the terms, I can't really say more than what we've commented on at this point.

[Kevin Garrigan, Analyst at Jefferies]

Okay. Got it. Thanks, guys, and congrats again.

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

Thanks, Kevin.

[Operator]

Your next question comes from the line of Anja Soderstrom. Anja Soderstrom, please go ahead.

[Anja Soderstrom, Analyst at Sidoti]

Thank you. Thank you for taking my questions and congrats on the great quarter and the Amazon agreement. Hopefully others will follow suit soon. Most of my questions have been addressed. I'm curious about the capital allocation. I saw you were light on the buybacks for the quarter. You also have some short-term debt coming due. How should we think about your capital allocation priorities?

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

Yeah. Anja, when we think about capital allocation, we think we have a great business. We want to keep investing in it. That's certainly paramount. We want to make sure that we keep a strong balance sheet because we do have these enforcement actions against very large companies. We do want to return capital to shareholders. We continued to do so in Q2. As far as the level and timing, that's always subject to a number of different factors. I always say, if you broaden the aperture, we're always doing quite a bit there. If you focus on any small window, you're not necessarily going to get the whole picture. Then in terms of the debt, back in Q1, we had about $80 million of early conversions and paid that off.

[Rich Brezski, CFO at InterDigital]

You'll see in the queue that we talked about another $83 million that's in the process and is expected to close in terms of early conversions in the next quarter. It's something, part of our capital structure that we're always looking at. Those conversions are actually driven by the debt holders. We're happy to remove the debt.

[Anja Soderstrom, Analyst at Sidoti]

Okay. Thank you. I'm also just curious with the Amazon arbitration process, you said you expect it to take 18 months-24 months. How do you come up with that timeframe? Can you remind me how long the arbitration took for Samsung?

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Yeah. Anja, this is Liren. Generally speaking, this process works like this, right? We are trying to get [inaudible] result, and whatever term we could not agree upon go to the arbitration. There will be a process to select the arbitrator. I think we described this in the prior call before. Both parties come up with one arbitrator, and collectively they pick the third one, and that process can take a little bit of time. Afterwards, both parties will present their evidence to the arbitrator, and that process can, generally speaking, take roughly 12 months-18 months. We add the front end of the process, combined with the whole thing, we are currently estimating to be about 18 months-24 months. That's pretty much aligned with our Samsung experience, and that's also well-aligned with our Lenovo experience regarding timeline.

[Anja Soderstrom, Analyst at Sidoti]

Okay. Thank you. That was all for me.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Thank you.

[Operator]

There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the conference back over to Liren Chen, our CEO, for the closing remarks.

[Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital]

Thank you, Kathleen. Before we close, I'd like to again thank all our colleagues for their dedication and contribution to InterDigital, as well as our many partners and customers for a strong quarter. Thank you all for everyone who joined the call today, and we look forward to updating you on our progress next quarter.

[Operator]

Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes this call. Thank you everyone for joining. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Raiford Garrabrant, VP of Investor Relations
• Liren Chen, President and CEO
• Rich Brezski, CFO

Analysts

• Scott Searle, Analyst at Roth Capital
• Arjun Bhatia, Analyst at William Blair
• Kevin Garrigan, Analyst at Jefferies
• Anja Soderstrom, Analyst at Sidoti