If we look at 20 19 from now on, we can actually find that Ren has already expressed his attitude towards patent fees: "Huawei has developed rapidly in recent years, and everyone is too busy to charge. They will charge some fees when they are free, but not as high as Qualcomm. "
Of course, whether Huawei is "idle" is not the point now. Huang Haifeng, a science and technology commentator, believes that the main version of the 5G standard is relatively mature and frozen. The data shows that Huawei's technical contribution to the 5G standard accounts for as much as 20%, which enables Huawei to judge and formulate a reasonable and balanced rate that matches its own contribution, and disclose transparent 5G patent fees to the industry at an appropriate time in the first year of commercialization on a 5G scale.
It is understood that Huawei fully considered the cost expectations of manufacturers when formulating the rate standard. As an important contributor to 5G standard technology, it hopes to solve the uncertainty of the development cost of digitalization in various industries, so as to help them formulate long-term development strategies and ultimately benefit the people.
In fact, compared with Qualcomm, Nokia, Ericsson and other companies that have already collected communication patent fees, Huawei's "pricing" is indeed reasonable. From the point of view of unit price, Ericsson's charging standard is basically $5 for a single multimode 5G mobile phone, while the patent fee for a single multimode 5G mobile phone can be as low as $2.50 per mobile phone, and the price is lower. Ma Jihua, an industry analyst, believes that the upper limit of Huawei's fees is equivalent to the lower limit of Ericsson.
The patent fee for Nokia's 5G mobile phone is 3 euros (equivalent to 3.6 US dollars), which is almost 40% higher than Huawei's charging standard.
In terms of proportion, Ericsson's intellectual property revenue is about 65.438+0.2 billion USD, accounting for 4.3% of the revenue, and Nokia's intellectual property revenue in 2020 is 65.438+0.402 billion EUR, accounting for 6.41.6% of the total revenue; Qualcomm's technology licensing revenue is as high as $5.028 billion. Ma Jihua said that according to Gartner's forecast, there will be 538.5 million 5G smartphones in 20021year, and Huawei's intellectual property fee income will reach about 654.38+02 billion US dollars, and the future annual fee space will reach 3.75 billion US dollars. However, based on Huawei's annual revenue of more than $654.38+00 billion, this patent fee income is still extremely low, far lower than that of its peers.
Therefore, it is appropriate for Huawei to charge 5G mobile phone patent fees, and the fees are also very reasonable.
The innovation model should be adhered to.
Interestingly, the timing of Huawei's proposal for 5G patent fees coincides with the end of the "two sessions". If we pay attention to the "improving the application system for intellectual property protection" proposed by the government during the two sessions, we can find that respecting and applying patent authorization is one of the most typical manifestations of the application mechanism for intellectual property protection.
Sun Yongjie, an ICT analyst, believes that patents are one of the important signs of an enterprise's innovation ability and whether it is an innovative enterprise. Looking back on the hot topics of innovation in recent years, 5G non-smart phones in the non-communication field belong to none other than smart phones, among which smart phones are typical representatives. In the current and future global 5G smart phones, China market and China enterprises will undoubtedly play a leading role. Based on this, the innovative initiatives of 5G smart phones represented by patents have become a mirror of our intellectual property protection not only at home but also on a global scale.
For example, OVM, which used to focus on marketing or channels, also began to focus on innovation and increase investment in research and development; OPPO said that it will invest 50 billion yuan in research and development in the next five years; Xiaomi's investment in R&D is also increasing every year.
The strength of the whole country pays attention to innovation, which also reflects China's scientific and technological strength, which is why China has achieved a situation from following to leading in the field of international communication this year.
But innovation cannot be achieved overnight. "It takes a long time to see' innovation'. Sun Yongjie said that Huawei's leading position in the 5G era today (such as patents) is the result of its continuous R&D investment and iterative innovation for more than ten years, especially the underlying technologies (such as mobile phone chips).
It is understood that Huawei invests hundreds of billions of dollars in R&D every year, and its achievements are spread all over the whole field of science and technology. The data shows that by 2020, Huawei has more than 654.38+million patents, of which 5G related patents account for more than 6%. According to the report released by the German patent information analysis agency IPlytics, as of last year's 10, Huawei ranked first in the world in the number of 5G patent applications, with 6372, while Qualcomm and Samsung ranked second and third, with 4590 and 4052 respectively.
Of course, some people think that after Huawei collects patent fees, the expenses of brands such as Xiaomi and OV will increase. Will it put too much pressure on it? Ma Jihua believes that this is a matter of course. If these mobile phone manufacturers use Huawei's patents, they should pay Huawei, depending on the result of negotiation and bargaining between the two parties. As Huawei ranks second and tenth in the number of patents granted in Europe and the United States respectively, many European and American enterprises may be unable to escape the situation of paying patent fees to Huawei.