Posted on 06/20/2023 4:09:12 AM PDT by FarCenter
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei may be looking to put the squeeze on small to medium companies for license fees on its sizeable patent portfolio as its bottom line continues to be hit by US sanctions and other restrictions.
A report in Nikkei Asia claims that Huawei has approached about 30 small to midsize companies in Japan, apparently seeking license fees for using its patented technology. The move is being viewed as the Chinese company attempting to claw back some of the revenue it has been losing because of Washington's crackdowns.
Nikkei states that the companies in question are all involved in the telecoms industry, and a common thread appears to be that Huawei is seeking fees from manufacturers that make use of wireless communication modules.
The company was one of the front runners in the development of 5G wireless technology and holds a number of patents relating to it, but also holds a number of so-called standard-essential patents (SEPs) relating to common standards such as 4G and Wi-Fi.
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It's high time that companies did what the American and world-wide governments have refused to do, and that's technologically isolate China.
China innovates NOTHING. China steals everyone's IP, copies it (badly!) and floods markets with substandard product. It's high time China crumbled under its own corrupt Communist weight.
If that were true, how did Huawei get all those patents?
>>China’s Huawei Technologies remained the top filer of PCT international applications in 2022. It was followed by Samsung Electronics from the Republic of Korea, Qualcomm from the US, Mitsubishi Electric of Japan, and Ericsson of Sweden. Among the top 10 users, eight were located in the North-East Asia.
https://www.wipo.int/en/ipfactsandfigures/patents
The volume of patent applications does not equal innovation. There's a term for what China's doing, they're Patent Trolls.
We see this in the software industry ALL THE TIME.
Out and out theft, according to a friend, who was one of the design engineers for Nortel.
And neither the feds not the Canadian gov't did anything to protect Nortel.
Which is how Huawei went from the wilderness to a top global wireless player in just a couple of years.
That, and as much CCP money as they could siphon.
Exactly. They’ve been ignoring IP rights for a long time, now they’re crying about their own patents? Give me a break...then start payback payments for what they owe to everyone else.
The Chinese want us to respect intellectual property rights ?
>>The Chinese want us to respect intellectual property rights ?
Yes, now that they have the world’s largest number of STEM graduates each year.
The US was keen to put in place a lot of IP protection treaties in the ‘90s, especially driven by Hollywood’s response to China’s casual attitude to duplicating DVDs.
It was clear to me at the time that it would come back to bite US in the ass, since China was rapidly expanding its R&D capability.
China trying to defend patents. That is funny right there.
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