In 20 19, Nokia's financial report showed that its communication business was not progressing smoothly and its profit margin was under great pressure, so it had to choose not to pay dividends in this fiscal year. This is disastrous for a listed company. This stems from the fact that Nokia has been lagging behind in innovation and input and output, and it cannot compete with Huawei, Samsung and even Japan Telecom in technology.
In fiscal year 20 19, Huawei's investment in R&D was more than twice that of the second-place Nokia. It is precisely because of the obvious advantages of 5G technology that Huawei was banned. Nokia and Ericsson, which are gradually attacked by American capital, have become the inevitable choice against Huawei, and the crisis-ridden Nokia has gained a new life cycle.
In 2020, for Huawei, in the darkest days of its overseas 5G business, Nokia's share rose to more than 20%. However, in China, where the capacity of the global 5G market is the largest, Nokia is almost completely excluded from the procurement target of the three major operators because of its lack of competitiveness, backward performance and high price.
Obviously, even Qualcomm is not afraid. Huawei and Nokia, which have a deep intellectual property foundation, dare not act rashly. After the choice, OPPO, the largest domestic mobile phone manufacturer in Huawei era, wrestled in the patent field, which seems to have been planned for a long time.
OPPO, which was relatively low-key, has been quietly cultivating and improving its hard-core ability. Can it resist this wave of attacks by Nokia, a representative of western technology? This is a game that domestic mobile phone manufacturers must face directly if they want to fill the gap of Huawei's high-end mobile phones in the post-Huawei era.
Nokia has always considered itself a leader in the field of essential patents for the 5G standard. This conclusion is based on an independent third-party research report, which claims that Nokia ranks first in mobile phone standard patents, including 5G.
This consulting organization is Pacousulting, and its research report in April 20021year shows that Nokia ranks first among valid patents of 5G.
But also from Europe, who is leading the 5g patent competition? Among them, Huawei ranked first with 15.4% of the 5G standard essential patents, and Nokia ranked third.
On April 22nd, the Unified Patent of the United States released the distribution of necessary patent holders of the 5G RAN standard. Huawei still ranks first with 14.8%, and Nokia ranks seventh with 4.9%.
In a word, the total collapse of China's communication equipment market will prompt Nokia to take some actions, such as providing "patent sticks" to other China manufacturers except Huawei (5G giant). Huawei's mobile phone business has temporarily retired, but do other manufacturers have such hard-core strength?
Recently, IPRdaily and incoPat Innovation Index Research Center jointly released "202 1 Annual China PCT International Patent Application Ranking TOP 100". Huawei ranked first with 4,378 patents, and OPPO ranked second with 1569 patents, followed by China Ping An, ZTE, TCL Huaxing, BOE, VIVO, AAC Technologies, DJI and Midea.
Judging from this list, after Huawei, OV system seems to be the most likely relay in the field of intellectual property. In the period when Huawei's mobile phone business encountered a trough, OPPO inevitably continued to keep a low profile.
By the fourth quarter of 2020, OPPO has become the fourth largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. In particular, OV belongs to BBK, and its scale and scale advantages are self-evident. With the continuous improvement of OV's overseas market and global influence, intellectual property risks are inevitable.
In the past few years, OPPO has obtained a large number of patents in key technical fields of mobile phones through acquisitions and cooperation, which has laid a solid foundation for the safe operation of its mobile phone business on a global scale.
In the patent litigation in recent years, OPPO's record is amazing:
20 19 Siemens sued OPPO and vivo for two communication patents in Beijing intellectual property court, both of which were rejected.
In 20021year, the patent war between OPPO and Nokia started, and OPPO and Sisvel ended their two-year patent dispute and reached a license agreement. Sisvel is an active patent litigation and licensing organization, mainly active in Europe. There are more than 60 global patent lawsuits with Sisvel as the plaintiff. Sisvel has always demanded excessive license fees, and has a tough attitude, leaving no room for negotiation.
OPPO has also achieved excellent results in the field of 5G patents. OPPO has continuously laid out 5G communication standard patents in more than 20 countries and regions around the world, * * * completed 3,900 global patent applications, and applied for 5G standard patents 1600 in ETSI.
OPPO has submitted more than 3000 standard manuscripts in 3GPP. According to the report on the number of necessary patent claims of global 5G standard in 20021year issued by the authoritative German research institute IPlytics, OPPO ranks among the top ten in the world.
Nokia almost lost its share of China's 5G, and can't wait to implement high patent fees in China, with the intention of harvesting many domestic mobile phone manufacturers. OPPO should be their hand-picked opponent.
OPPO stands for China Mobile Phone Company and Nokia stands for the traditional "patent family" overseas. This game around the necessary patent authorization rate of the 5G standard has been a bayonet from the beginning.
What many people didn't expect was that with the accumulation of OPPO in R&D, intellectual property and other fields in recent years, OPPO fought back decisively, not only responding to conventional litigation, but also launching a decisive lawsuit against Nokia, suing Nokia's base station products for infringing OPPO's 5G patent.
This time, OPPO made full preparations, quickly ended other patent disputes and focused on the battle of Nokia. OPPO, the terminal manufacturer, actually kept the patents related to base stations and confronted Nokia head-on through countermeasures.
In the low tide period of Huawei's mobile phones, if domestic mobile phones want to continue to prosper, especially to fill the gap of Huawei's high-end mobile phones, they can only give up the marketing model and strategy, always insist on substantial R&D investment and obtain connotative hard-core technical support.
Before Huawei announced the charging standard for 5G patents in March this year, there was a patent war between Nokia and OPPO. OPPO, as the most likely mobile phone manufacturer in China to set off Huawei's baton, can show more strength, so let's wait and see.