As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 19, 2002
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
PENNSYLVANIA 23-1882087
(State or Other Jurisdiction (I.R.S. Employer
of Incorporation or Identification
Organization) Number)
781 Third Avenue
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406-1409
(610) 878-7800
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of Registrant's principal executive offices)
INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
(Full title of the plan)
Lawrence F. Shay, Esq., Vice President and General Counsel
InterDigital Communications Corporation
781 Third Avenue
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406-1409
(Name and address of agent for service)
(610) 878-7800
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Proposed Proposed
maximum maximum
Title of shares to be Amount to be offering price per aggregate offering Amount of
registered registered (1) share (2) price (2) registration fee
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Common Stock 1,000,000 $8.54 $8,540,000 $785.68
($.01 par value)
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(1) Pursuant to Rule 416(b), there shall also be deemed covered hereby such
additional shares as may result from anti-dilution adjustments under the
InterDigital Communications Corporation Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the
"Plan") which may hereinafter be offered or issued to prevent dilution resulting
from stock splits, stock dividends, recapitalizations or certain other capital
adjustments.
(2) Estimated solely for the purposes of calculating the registration fee in
accordance with Rule 457(h)(1) and (c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act"), based on the average of the high and low prices
reported for shares of Common Stock of the Registrant, as reported on the Nasdaq
National Market on July 15, 2002.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this
Registration Statement is being filed in order to register 1,000,000 additional
shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share ("Common Stock") of
InterDigital Communications Corporation (the "Company"), with respect to the
currently effective Registration Statements on Form S-8 of the Company relating
to a certain employee benefit plan of the Company.
The contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8 as
filed April 12, 1993, Registration No. 33-60964, as the same may be hereafter
amended, are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The following documents which have been filed by the Company
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated
by reference into this Registration Statement:
(a) Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2001;
(b) Our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
ended March 31, 2002;
(c) Our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the
Commission on January 17, 2002, April 16, 2002, June 4, 2002
and July 12, 2002; and
(d) The description of the Common Stock contained in
the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with
the Commission on April 25, 2000, together with Amendment No.
1 on Form 8-A/A filed with the Commission on May 2, 2000, and
including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of
updating such description in which there is described the
terms, rights and provisions applicable to our Common Stock.
All documents filed by the Company or the Plan pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
"Exchange Act") after the date hereof and prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered pursuant to
this Registration Statement have been sold or which deregisters all securities
then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
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INFORMATION REGARDING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE INTO THIS
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Section 11(a) of the Securities Act provides that if any part
of a registration statement at the time it becomes effective contains an untrue
statement of a material fact or an omission to state a material fact required to
be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading,
any person acquiring a security interest pursuant to such registration statement
(unless it is proved to be that at the time of such acquisition such person knew
of such untruth or omission) may sue, among others, every accountant who has
consented to be named as having prepared or certified any part of the
registration statement or as having prepared or certified any report or
valuation which is used in connection with the registration statement with
respect to the statement in such registration statement, report or valuation
which purports to have been prepared or certified by the accountant.
On April 16, 2002, we announced that we had made a
determination to engage PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ("PwC") to serve as the
Company's independent public accountants and no longer engage Arthur Andersen
LLP ("Arthur Andersen") in such capacity. Our consolidated balance sheets as of
December 31, 2001 and 2000, and the related consolidated statements of
operations, stockholders' equity and cash flows for each of the three years
ended December 31, 2001, have been audited by Arthur Andersen, as stated in
their report dated February 14, 2002, included in our Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2001, which is incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement. Prior to the date of this Registration Statement, the Arthur Andersen
engagement partner and engagement manager who reviewed our most recent audited
financial statements resigned from Arthur Andersen. As a result, after
reasonable efforts, we have been unable to obtain Arthur Andersen's written
consent to the incorporation by reference into this Registration Statement of
its audit reports with respect to our financial statements. Under these
circumstances, Rule 437a under the Securities Act permits us to file this
Registration Statement without a written consent from Arthur Andersen.
Accordingly, Arthur Andersen will not be liable to you under Section 11(a) of
the Securities Act because it has not consented to being named as an expert in
this Registration Statement. In addition, the ability of Arthur Andersen to
satisfy any claims (including claims arising from Arthur Andersen's provision of
auditing and other services to us) may be limited as a practical matter due to
recent events regarding Arthur Andersen.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
The Common Stock, which is the class of securities offered
pursuant to the Registration Statement, is registered under the Exchange Act.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
The validity of the Common Stock registered hereunder has been
passed upon for the Company by Lawrence F. Shay, Esq., 781 Third Avenue, King of
Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406-1409. Mr. Shay is General Counsel, Vice President
and Corporate Secretary of the Company, and Mr. Shay owns 1,421 shares of Common
Stock and options to purchase 50,000 shares of Common Stock.
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Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Sections 1741-1750 of the Pennsylvania Business Corporation
Law of 1988 (the "BCL") and the Company's By-Laws provide for indemnification of
the Company's directors and officers and certain other persons. Under Sections
1741-1750 of the BCL, directors and officers of the Company may be indemnified
by the Company against all expenses incurred in connection with actions
(including, under certain circumstances, derivative actions) brought against
such director or officer by reason of his or her status as a representative of
the Company, or by reason of the fact that such director or officer serves or
served as a representative of another entity at the Company's request, so long
as the director or officer acted in good faith and in a manner he or she
reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the
Company. As permitted under the BCL, the Company's By-Laws provide that the
Company shall indemnify directors and officers against all expenses incurred in
connection with actions (including derivative actions) brought against such
director or officer by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or
officer of the Company, or by reason of the fact that such director or officer
serves or served as an employee or agent of any entity at the Company's request,
unless the act or failure to act on the part of the director or officer giving
rise to the claim for indemnification is determined by a court in a final,
binding adjudication to have constituted willful misconduct or recklessness.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
Exhibit No. Description
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4.1 InterDigital Communications Corporation Employee
Stock Purchase Plan (as amended and restated,
effective June 4, 2002).
5 Opinion of Lawrence F. Shay, Esquire
23.1 Consent of Lawrence F. Shay, Esquire (included in
Exhibit 5 hereto)
24 Power of Attorney (see signature page at pg. 7)
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the
Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of
the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, on July 19, 2002.
INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
By: /s/ Howard E. Goldberg
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Howard E. Goldberg, Director, President and
Chief Executive Officer (Principal
Executive Officer)
By: /s/ R. J. Fagan
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Richard J. Fagan, Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer (Principal
Financial and Accounting Officer)
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each individual whose
signature appears below constitutes and appoints Howard E. Goldberg and Lawrence
F. Shay, and each or any of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his
name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
(including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their, his or her substitutes
or substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
Date: July 19, 2002 /s/ Harry G. Campagna
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Harry G. Campagna, Chairman of the Board
Date: July 19, 2002 /s/ Howard E. Goldberg
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Howard E. Goldberg, Director, President and
Chief Executive Officer
Date: July 19, 2002 /s/ D. Ridgely Bolgiano
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D. Ridgely Bolgiano, Director
Date: July 19, 2002 /s/ Steven T. Clontz
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Steven T. Clontz, Director
Date: July 19, 2002 /s/ Joseph S. Colson, Jr.
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Joseph S. Colson, Jr., Director
Date: July 19, 2002 /s/ R. S. Roath
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Robert S. Roath, Director
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No. Description
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4.1 InterDigital Communications Corporation Employee
Stock Purchase Plan (as amended and restated,
effective June 4, 2002).
5 Opinion of Lawrence F. Shay, Esquire
23.1 Consent of Lawrence F. Shay, Esquire (included in
Exhibit 5)
24 Power of Attorney (see signature page at pg. 7)
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