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IIPLA 2021 Session Recording – Patent Pools in Age of IoTs, 5G and NextGen Video Codecs
The main rationale for patent pools is to solve the stickiness problem of licensing (eg, by saving transaction costs for both licensors and licensees). Considering that connectivity standards such as 4G/5G, Wi-Fi or video codecs will be used across multiple industries...
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Who leads the 5G patent race November 2021?
The next Industrial Revolution will not only affect the smartphone and computer world but will also have an impact on considerably more industrial verticals, including automotive, home appliances, manufacturing, energy and healthcare. Estimates suggest that half of...
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Who’s ahead in the Wi-Fi 6 patent race?
Wi-Fi 6 will play an important role in the assortment of connectivity standards that will be at the core of the next technology revolution. It will likely be implemented in millions of devices across different industry verticals, including smart homes, smart factory...
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Webinar Recording and Slides: The Role of Standard Essential Patents in the Auto Industry
The auto industry is one of the first sectors outside of the smartphone world to heavily rely on connectivity standards such as 4G and soon 5G, wires standards such as the 802.11p (WAVE) or other standards such as Bluetooth, video compression (e.g. VVC) or the...
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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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