In the 5G standard voting sponsored by the International Telecommunication Union, the standards of Qualcomm and Huawei were selected at the same time and entered the final standard competition. In the later voting, Qualcomm's standard won the long code standard of 5G, and Huawei's standard won the short code standard of 5G. In the future, no matter which telecom equipment vendor engages in 5G, the long code must be in accordance with the standards of Qualcomm and the short code must be in accordance with the standards of Huawei.
Later, in the contribution of 5G technology patents, Huawei ranked first with more than 3,000 technology patents. During this period, ITU selected more than 1000 patents as the necessary standard patents of 5G. What is the necessary standard patent? Let's start with a simple and clear example. I think everyone has been on the train or high-speed rail, right? In China, no matter where the railway is built, it must be done according to the standards set by the government, and it is absolutely not allowed to set a standard in one place. The reason is also very simple. If a place has standards, the railway will not be open to traffic. For example, this county (district) uses standard gauge, that county (district) uses wide gauge and that county (district) uses narrow gauge. If you want to go from Nansha District of Guangzhou to Nanhai District of Foshan City via Panyu District, Huangpu District, Tianhe District, Yuexiu District and Liwan District, you have to change trains five times. Then I go to Shenzhen by train from Harbin, so I don't have to change trains hundreds of times! How troublesome it is! Therefore, the construction of railways in China must follow the unified standards formulated by the government to ensure smooth traffic. The same is true of network communication. In order to facilitate global network communication, ITU will select some technical standards from communication equipment providers all over the world as the unified standards for network communication in various countries. Because these technical standards are patented, this selected technical standard is a necessary standard patent. Therefore, no matter which country or region, no matter how much it hates Huawei, it must use Huawei's 5G short code standard and 5G necessary standard technology patents, unless it is said that it will not engage in 5G.
If you knew what a standard essential patent was, you wouldn't say so. Theoretically, we can bypass other people's patents and develop another one ourselves, but this method is very difficult, unrealistic and uneconomical. For example, from Beijing to Shanghai, highways and national highways are not allowed, and only roads below provincial roads and county roads can be taken. How hard do you think it is? How much time and money will it cost?
Impossible, unless you give up 5 g.
With the scientific and technological strength of the United States, it is not difficult to do this.
5G is impossible to surpass, start a new stove and engage in 6G directly.
From a technical point of view, it is possible to bypass Huawei's 5G patent, but it may not work in practice.
Huawei's 5G patents are divided into standard essential patents and non-standard essential patents. Huawei's 5G patents are not single, but hundreds.
The standard essential patent is an integral part of the international standard of 5G communication. The purpose of this standard is to make the products of different manufacturers of 5G communication equipment and terminals (such as mobile phones) in different countries accessible to each other. Equipment and terminals that do not meet the standard cannot be connected with products that meet the standard, at least some products that meet the standard, so they cannot obtain network access qualification and enter the market.
Non-standard essential patents can be bypassed, but it is of little significance. The key is to bypass Huawei's standard essential patents, which is very difficult.
[What] To replace Huawei's patented technology, two conditions must be met: First, the existing international standards for 5G communication must be met; Second, it must be obviously different from Huawei's existing patented technology and not infringe Huawei's patent rights.
The difficulty is that a certain aspect of the international standard is based on Huawei's patent, and Huawei's patent must be chosen as the standard, because either the technology necessary for this kind of 5G communication is not available in other companies' patented technology, or the effect of Huawei's patented technology is better than other similar technologies. On the premise of meeting the existing standards, how difficult is it to develop new technologies that can reach or exceed the effect of Huawei's patented technology and are sufficiently different from Huawei's patented technology? So many other companies, universities and other research institutes have not developed or developed technologies that are not as good as Huawei. You can imagine how difficult it is.
The standard is based on Huawei's patented technology, but the patented technology that bypasses Huawei meets the standard and is different from Huawei's patented technology, which is a contradiction in itself. Therefore, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to bypass Huawei's patented technology.
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