As the application of 5G will differ from industry to industry, 5G licensing mechanisms will need to be more flexible. SEP owners will have to strike a balance between offering different pricing structures for different use cases and providing mechanisms that avoid...

Analysis on declared standard essential patents, 3GPP contributions and attendance data. The long-term vision is that 5G will lead to the invention of thousands of new products, technologies and services, increase productivity and allow for new industries to emerge. A...

Autonomous driving technology promises to disrupt and transform the automotive space as we know it, spurring a race between giants for the biggest breakthrough in human transportation since the airplane. In the past, organisations that were not native to the transport...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has taken the world by storm over the last decade. There has been a paradigm shift towards automation and adoption of control systems through the use of intelligent technology. This has been made possible due to affordable computing, which...

The automotive industry seems to agree that e-mobility is the future. For example, Volkswagen has announced that it plans to stop developing new combustion engine cars by 2026. The question seems to no longer be whether e-mobility will take over but rather, how will...

Introduction On 17 December 2017 one bitcoin was worth $19,783.06. Its worth grew to this from roughly $900 in just 11 months, while ‘bitcoin’ was the second most searched term in Google’s news section that year. Although the cryptocurrency bubble has now popped, a...

A patent landscape analysis on how SEPs and FRAND will affect the auto industry Similar to the transition in the mobile phone industry from feature phones to smartphones and where business models, platforms and market participants have transformed the way that profits...