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The Rise of Standard Essential Patents
The increasing need for and wide implementation of standards is shaping both the market of SEP licensees and SEP holders. Today, it is not just telecoms organizations that hold SEPs. The number of SEP holders has more than doubled in the past ten years. When...
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Webinar Recording and Slides: SEP Deals – The Long and Often Winding Road
As 5G launches, we’re seeing more deals getting inked between companies for rights to use 5G Wireless SEP portfolios. Deals signed by the likes of Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung, Huawei, Qualcomm and Interdigital with various global wireless handset companies. As well as...
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The Role of Standard-Essential Patents for the Auto Industry
The increasing integration of information and communication technologies in vehicles is creating new challenges for licensing patents in general, and for negotiating royalty payments for standard-essential patents in particular. Similar to the mobile phone industry ‒...
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Slides and Video Recording: Unpacking VVC SEPs and standards contribution data
The next-generation video codec Versatile Video Coding (VVC) (H.266) offers significant technical advantages over its predecessors HEVC (H.265) and AVC (H.264) and competitors (eg, the proprietary codecs AV1 and VP9). Finalized in October 2020, VVC can achieve the...
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SEP Research Group Japan: How to Determine Essentiality for SEPs
In Japan, SEP-related discussions are being promoted under the SEP Research Group initiative of relevant government agencies Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Japan Patent Office. The SEP Research Group, which started its activities in 2013, regularly holds...
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Who will win the smart energy patent race?
A wave of oncoming smart energy technology could be about to make the worlds electricity infrastructure more efficient, however it relies on standardized technology such as 4G, 5G or Wi-Fi, which are subject to thousands of standard essential patents (SEPs). This has...
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AI may be the solution to skyrocketing numbers of SEP declarations
SEPs are on the rise, the number of annual newly declared patents has almost tripled over the past five years; there were 6,457 new declared patent families in 2015 compared to 17,623 in 2020. The 5G standard alone counts over 150,000 declared patents since 2015....
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Unpacking Wi-Fi 6 SEPs declaration and standards contribution data – video recording and slides
The first Wi-Fi 6 devices are now available in stores, with real-time Wi-Fi 6 applications that are capable of functioning reliably in WLAN. Wi-Fi 6 achieves speeds up to one-and-a-half times faster than Wi-Fi 5 – the new standard enables a maximum speed of up to 4.8...
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