Company: IDCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001405495-25-000011
Chunk: 57

Company: InterDigital, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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Item 1A.      RISK FACTORS.

We face a variety of risks that may affect our business, financial condition, operating results, the trading price of our common stock, or any combination thereof. You should carefully consider the following information and the other information in this Form 10-K in evaluating our business and prospects and before making an investment decision with respect to our common stock. If any of these risks were to occur, our business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects could be materially and adversely affected. In such an event, the market price of our common stock could decline and you could lose all or part of your investment. The risks and uncertainties we describe below are not the only ones facing us. Additional risks not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also affect our business.

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Risks Related to Our Business

Our plans to expand our revenue opportunities may not be successful.

As part of our business strategy, we regularly seek to expand our revenue opportunities both organically and inorganically. In particular, we have expanded our licensing activities beyond device-based licensing revenue to certain video and cloud-based service providers. The market for licensing video and cloud-based services is not as developed as device-based licensing programs. As a result, video and cloud-based service providers do not have a significant volume of comparable agreements against which to compare our offers and may use this as a reason to delay our negotiations with such providers. Additionally, our pricing models may not reflect the value of our technologies in the eyes of our customers. And, because this market is less developed, holdout behavior may be more likely than in device licensing. Service providers may also opt to use alternative technologies for which we have little or no patent coverage. Accordingly, we may not be able to enter into license agreements with these providers on terms that are favorable to us, or at all. Services revenue is a key component of our future growth, and if we are unable to successfully launch and execute a services licensing program, we will not reach our revenue targets, and our business, financial condition and prospects could be harmed.  

Challenges relating to our ability to enter into new license agreements and renew existing license agreements could cause our revenue and cash flow to decline.

We face challenges in entering into new patent license agreements. Most implementers of our technology do not voluntarily seek to enter into license agreements with us before they commence manufacturing and/or selling devices that use our patented inventions. The process of identifying users of our inventions and negotiating license agreements with