InterDigital enforces patents against Hisense and TCL

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Technical Shares at $376.60 are trading above the 200-day MA of $292.41 and about 8.73% below the 52-week high of $412.60.

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Historical Context

5 past events · Latest: Feb 05 (Positive)

Pattern 5 events

Date	Event	Sentiment	Move	Catalyst
Feb 05	Earnings results	Positive	+9.9%	Strong 2025 revenue, record net income and non‑GAAP EPS drove gains.
Jan 20	Full‑year outlook	Positive	+5.5%	Issued 2026 guidance with detailed revenue, EBITDA and EPS ranges.
Jan 20	LG license deal	Positive	+5.5%	New patent license with LG for TVs and monitors under Sony joint program.
Jan 13	Earnings date set	Neutral	+0.7%	Announced timing and access details for Q4 and full‑year 2025 results.
Jan 07	Conference appearance	Neutral	+0.1%	Planned presentation at Needham Growth Conference with webcast access.

Pattern Detected

Recent earnings, outlook, and licensing announcements have generally been followed by positive share price reactions.

Recent Company History

Over recent months, InterDigital reported strong 2025 results with near‑record revenue of $834.0M and record net income of $406.6M, alongside record non‑GAAP EPS of $15.31 and free cash flow of $473.9M. Guidance for 2026 called for revenue of $675–$775M. The company also signed a new TV and monitor license with LG under its joint program with Sony. These updates underscored a growing licensing base, providing context for today’s enforcement action against Hisense and TCL.

Market Pulse Summary

This announcement highlights InterDigital’s move to enforce its video and HDR patents against Hisens...

Analysis

This announcement highlights InterDigital’s move to enforce its video and HDR patents against Hisense and TCL across courts in Europe, Brazil and India. It follows recent strength in earnings and new TV licensing deals, reinforcing the centrality of its IP strategy. Investors may watch for case outcomes, any subsequent license agreements, and how these actions interact with the company’s broader patent‑licensing and monetization roadmap.

Key Terms

hevc, high dynamic range (hdr), unified patent court

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hevc technical

"The patents-in-suit relate to HEVC, VP9 and AV1 video compression..."

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, is a video compression standard that squeezes high-quality video into smaller files so it uses less bandwidth and storage. For investors, HEVC matters because its adoption influences costs and performance for streaming services, device makers, and content distributors—similar to fitting more clothes into the same suitcase, it can reduce delivery expenses and enable higher-resolution video on existing networks.

high dynamic range (hdr) technical

"...and high dynamic range (HDR) technologies."

High dynamic range (HDR) is a set of imaging and display techniques that capture and reproduce a wider span between the darkest and brightest parts of a scene than standard methods, preserving detail in shadows and highlights so pictures look closer to what the eye sees. For investors, HDR matters because it can be a clear product-differentiator in TVs, phones, cameras and streaming content, influencing consumer demand, pricing power, content licensing and partnerships—like upgrading from a faded print to a vivid real-life photo.

unified patent court regulatory

"Cases have been initiated ... at the Munich Local Division of the Unified Patent Court..."

A unified patent court is a single legal forum that hears and decides patent disputes across multiple countries at once, acting like one central courtroom instead of many separate national courts. For investors, it matters because decisions there can affect the value and enforceability of a company’s patents across a whole region at once—similar to a single referee whose ruling changes the score for every team—impacting revenue risk, litigation costs and long-term competitive advantage.

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WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterDigital, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDCC), a mobile, video and AI technology research and development company, today announced that it has initiated litigation against Hisense and TCL over the ongoing infringement of InterDigital’s intellectual property, primarily related to InterDigital's joint TV licensing program with Sony.

The patents-in-suit relate to HEVC, VP9 and AV1 video compression, and high dynamic range (HDR) technologies.  

Cases have been initiated against the companies at the Munich Local Division of the Unified Patent Court, in the Munich Regional Court in Germany, in Rio de Janeiro State Court in Brazil, and in the Delhi High Court in India.

“Hisense and TCL are both top-five global TV manufacturers and have built their businesses on the back of research carried out by InterDigital engineers,” said Josh Schmidt, Chief Legal Officer, InterDigital. “Our decades of investment in foundational research have helped change how we watch our favorite movies and shows, and Hisense and TCL cannot be allowed to continue to infringe our IP, particularly while many of their competitors have taken a license.”  

About InterDigital^®

InterDigital is a global research and development company focused primarily on wireless, video, artificial intelligence (“AI”), and related technologies. We design and develop foundational technologies that enable connected, immersive experiences in a broad range of communications and entertainment products and services. We license our innovations worldwide to companies providing such products and services, including makers of wireless communications devices, consumer electronics, IoT devices, cars and other motor vehicles, and providers of cloud-based services such as video streaming. As a leader in wireless technology, our engineers have designed and developed a wide range of innovations that are used in wireless products and networks, from the earliest digital cellular systems to 5G and today’s most advanced Wi-Fi technologies. We are also a leader in video processing and video encoding/decoding technology, with a significant AI research effort that intersects with both wireless and video technologies. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on Nasdaq.

InterDigital is a registered trademark of InterDigital, Inc.

For more information, visit: www.interdigital.com.

InterDigital Contact:
Richard Lloyd
Email: richard.lloyd@interdigital.com
+1 (202) 349-1716