Ericsson gets a patent

In the 5G era, patents are the core competitiveness. As we all know, the patent is hard currency 5G, which is the communication standard of our mobile phone. It used to be 2G, 3G, now it is 4G, and it will soon enter 5G. Patent is intellectual property, which is the property right enjoyed by intellectual activities, that is, research and development. Next, I will tell you why patents in the 5G era are so powerful. What is a standard patent? What are the benefits of standard patents? Why are standard patents the lifeblood of communication companies? Patent era In the 5G era, patent is the core competitiveness. First, patents and patent licensing fees are the most important tasks in the early deployment of 5G. International communication giants such as Ericsson, Qualcomm, Nokia and ZTE recently disclosed their patent work, that is, their patent license fee policies. Ericsson took the lead in launching the first shot of charging for 5G patents, followed by Qualcomm. Nokia, a veteran company, is not far behind, and also announced the charging standard for 5G patent license. Whose expense is this? Of course, it is a domestic mobile phone manufacturer, strictly speaking, it is a terminal sales enterprise. What is the basis? It is a large number of standard patents held by these companies. In a word, these terminal enterprises used their patented technology when producing mobile phones. Some people say, do you have to pay a license fee to use other people's patented technology? The answer is, absolutely. This is an internationally accepted rule and a legal provision of our country. Interested students have to think for themselves. Then, we are curious, how much patent licensing fee does a mobile phone have to pay? Let's take 5G as an example. Nokia announced that each patent license fee does not exceed 3 euros, about RMB 24 yuan; Qualcomm's patent licensing fee is between 68 yuan and 97 yuan, and Ericsson is between 24 yuan and 35 yuan. So, Huawei is in China, and I heard that it is very powerful. How much does it charge? I'm sorry, he hasn't said it yet, but he said it can be lowered and asked everyone to lower it. Second, past lives of communication standard patent. Let me know what a standard patent is. First, patents. According to international practice, all countries should formulate patent laws to grant patents to the fruits of intellectual labor, which means that new technologies can be patented as long as they meet the requirements of the law. Patents are divided into product patents and method patents according to authorized themes. Obviously, compared with 4G, 5G has many innovations and advantages, such as wider bandwidth and faster speed, which inevitably contains many new technologies, and these new technologies are often patented by these inventors. Secondly, technical standards, which are the best order for certain industries and technologies in a certain period of time. There are mandatory standards and recommended standards. In the actual industry, there are strong mainstream standards and general standards. From the formulation subject, some countries come forward to formulate standards called national standards, and some alliances come forward to formulate standards called alliance standards. Makers and participants are often the most knowledgeable people in this field. These participants put forward proposals as required, and then other members put forward their opinions and voted in favor. If you encounter a proposal with the same theme and function, you need to compete, and then the competent department will vote for it. Just like we choose a monitor. Obviously, these technical proposals may include the patented technologies of various companies, and of course they may also include the patents of other companies. Then we have to ask, does every proposal provider want to put his own patent into the standard? In order to limit the abuse of standard participants, a condition is set, which is called standard necessary condition. In other words, patented technology must meet a condition before it can enter the standard, which is essential. In other words, without this patented technology, the standard cannot be complete, or it cannot be implemented at all. In short, this standard must have your patented technology, otherwise the standard will not be established. Therefore, the full name of standard patent is standard essential patent. At this point, you can see that it is not easy for 5G to get a standard patent. After defining the standard necessary patents, let's take a look at the patents of the old giant Nokia. On April 20 14, Nokia sold its mobile phone business to Microsoft and officially withdrew from the mobile phone market. Even so, Nokia can still earn a lot of patent fees. What is the secret of this? Quite simply, he also holds a large number of necessary patents for 3G and 4G communication standards (hereinafter referred to as standard patents), which are still within the validity period and can still be used to obtain licensing income. According to statistics, Nokia has 1.2 million communication patents, including GSM standard (2G) 1/3, W-CDMA standard (3G) 1/4 and LTE standard (4G) 1/5. According to the patent law, the term of invention patent right is 20 years. Nokia's research and development of 3G technology was around 2000, and most of these 3G standard patents are still within the validity period. When other enterprises provide related services to users, they must theoretically pay corresponding patent fees to Nokia. That's what happened. At present, nearly 40 smartphone manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, HTC and LG pay high patent licensing fees to Nokia every year. Nokia has also become an industry model for the protection and realization of patent rights. 2065438+In May 2007, Nokia sued Apple for infringing 32 patents, and Apple lost the case and compensated Nokia for $2 billion. In 65438+February of the same year, Nokia won another lawsuit, defeated the old communication company Blackberry, and charged it a patent fee of 65438+37 million US dollars. In addition, due to the continuous development of communication technology, the new generation of communication technology will generally be compatible with some technologies of the previous generation. Although Nokia is no longer directly engaged in mobile phone manufacturing, it can still develop communication technology by relying on the previous technical foundation, and may also develop some new 5G patents. Even in the 5G era, many communication technology companies in the 3G and 4G era can still maintain their advantages. Obviously, Nokia can do this, and other giants will not be idle. Third, communication companies compete for the 5G patent highland. In June, 20 18, the international standard-setting organization officially approved the 5G independent networking standard, which means that 5G has completed the first stage of standardization. According to recent search results, as of June 20 14, the number of 5G standard patents filed by 10 companies including Huawei, Ericsson, Samsung, Sharp and Intel reached 540 1. In the field of 5G terminals, the total number of standard patents filed is as high as 5 124 families. China Huawei ranked first with 148 1 family, accounting for 28.9%; Ericsson 1 134 family in Sweden followed closely, accounting for 22.1%; South Korea's Samsung Group 1038, accounting for 20.3%. Taking the channel technology of 5G standard as an example, it consists of two parts: control channel and data channel. The control channel mainly transmits instructions and synchronous data parameters, and the data channel mainly transmits data. After many rounds of voting by 40 communication companies that participated in the standard formulation, the standard formulation organization 3GPP finally decided that Huawei Polarization Code Technology (Polar) and Qualcomm Low Density Parity Code Technology (LDPC) are 5G standards for control channel technology and data channel technology respectively. It is reported that as of July 27th, 20 18, there were 103 patents in the field of polar code technology, of which Huawei occupied half of the country, with 5/kloc-0 patents, accounting for 49.5%; Ericsson ranked second, with 26 companies, accounting for 25.2% of the total, and InterDigital of the United States ranked third, with 7 companies, accounting for 6.8%.