With multiple reports published by many different entities on 5G, Wi-Fi or VVC leadership, it is hard to know who to believe, as there is little transparency about where the data comes from and what types of analysis were applied to retrieve the results, let alone how...

Standard-essential patents (SEPs) are on the rise as the number of yearly newly declared patents has almost tripled over the past five years. The 5G standard alone counts over 150,000 declared patents since 2015. Similarly, litigation around SEPs has increased. One of...

New connectivity standards such as 5G will shape the way in which smart factories work. As the manufacturing industry has specific 5G requirements that differ significantly from public mobile broadband services, smart factory applications must use different 5G...

Similar to the transition in the mobile phone industry from feature phones to smartphones, in which business models, platforms and market participants transformed the way in which profits are distributed among companies, we look set to see shifts and profit...

Technical standard contribution data can drastically change how a technology, portfolio or competitor is viewed. An analysis of a company’s number of contributions shows whether it is leading in standards development. This assumes that companies with the greatest...

With the boom in video sharing due to the covid-19 pandemic, software companies have been updating their SEP portfolios for video codec patents, with the next-generation video codec Versatile Video Coding (VVC) being the most advanced video codec out there. IPlytics...