Essential Patent Policy: China's New Regulation

According to the TalkStandard (http://www.talkstandards.com/), China recently announced a new regulation policy for IPRs in China's nation standards.

Draft for the regulation, whose deadline for the submitting comments was November 30, includes several interesting proposals:

1. Relevant IPRs involved in the China's national standardization process should be disclosed by IPR holders.

2. IPRs that are disclosed should available at royalty fees that are considerably lower than FRAND.

3. IPRs that are not disclosed are considered to be royalty free.

4. IPR holders who concealing IPR information shall bear legal liabilities.


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Essential Patent Supporting Center: A New South Korea's National Initiative

Korea Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) established the "Essential Patent Supporting Center" as a part of an official organization for Korea Institute of Patent Information (KIPI). The main role of the center is to support Korean industry for developing IPRs for standardized technologies, especially in IT and Telecommunications.

KIPO announced that the "Essential Patent Supporting Center" will be operated as a public-private collaboration and will provide essential patent information and expert consulting for promotion of Korean industries' global leadership in IPRs for standardized technologies.

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4G (LTE, WiMAX) Technology & IPR

Alex G. Lee, Ph.D. (Principal, TechIPm, LLC)

Trends & Issues with Strategic Patent Management for Mobile Communication Technologies:

1. Mobile Revolution Began with Patent

2. Patents at the Heart of Mobile Business: Qualcomm’s Profit Center

3. Beginning of 4 th Generation Mobile

4. Complex IPR Landscape 4.1 LTE IPR Landscape 4.2 Mobile WiMAX IPR Landscape

5. IPR Strategy: Strategic Alignment 5.1 IPR-Standardization Alignment Best Practice: LTE Case Study

6. Strategic Management of Patent Portfolio

7. Patent Portfolio Management: Mobile Telecom Case Study

8. Patent Portfolio Management: LTE Case Study (1)

9. Patent Portfolio Management: LTE Case Study (2)

10. Licensing Issues: Pool or Bilateral

11. NPE Issues: Evolution of IP business? 11.1 NPEs in Mobile Telecom 11.2 Pro or Con for the NPEs

Appendix. 4G IPR References

Hyeonwoo Lee, Ph.D. (Next G Mobile Program Director, Ministry of Knowledge Economy)

Roadmap and R&D Support in Mobile Communication:

1. Mobile Comm.Industry

2. Mobile Comm. R&D Roadmap

3. R&D Investment & IPR Status

4. R&D Support Policy

5. R&D Direction in Mobile Comm.

Junwon Lee (IPR Director, Samsung Electronics)

4G & Patent Portfolio:

1. Evolution to 4G

2. Standardization & IPR Portfolio for 4G

3. 4G & Patent Pools

Jari Varrio, Ph.D. (IPR Director, Nokia)

Patent portfolio creates value in many ways:

1.Multipurpose Devices

2. Innovations at Mobile Devices

3. Nokia IPR Assets

4. Innovations through Standards Collaboration

NPEs (Patent Trolls) in Mobile Telecommunications

NPE (non-practicing entity) is a patent owner who does not manufacture or use the patented invention, but rather than abandoning the right to exclude, an NPE seeks to enforce its right through the negotiation of licenses and litigation.

IPRs and litigations involved by NPEs in mobile telecommunications are analized for US issued patents using Innography.

As of Oct. 30 2009, NPEs hold 907 patent families (4% of total patents) and are involved in 129 lawsuits (13% of total patent litigations).


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Patent Litigation Risk Management: Mobile Telecommunications Case Study

Litigation risk management is one of key factors in strategic patent portfolio development. As a case study for a capability measure for litigation risk managemnt, litigation per patent is estimated for the US IPR holders in mobile telecommunications.

As of Oct. 15 2009, the key IPR holders and their IPR shares for mobile telecom were as follows:

Ericsson (3923), Nokia (3376), Motorola (3364), Samsung (2148), NEC (2061), Alcatel-Lucent (2013), Qualcomm (1997), MS (1884), Matsushita (1573), and IBM (1544).

For each IPR holders, patent lication cases are counted using Innography for the measure of the litigation per patent. The results were as follows:

Ericsson (0.01), Nokia (0.02), Motorola (0.05), Samsung (0.09), NEC (0.04), Alcatel-Lucent (0.06), Qualcomm (0.03), MS (0.11), Matsushita (0.07), and IBM (0.07).

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4G (LTE, WiMAX) IPR Strategy Seminar & Panel Discussion

As a part of PATINEX 2009, which is scheduled on Nov. 10-11 in Seoul, S. Korea, there will be a special session on Mobile technology IPR development and portfolio management especially for 4G. After short presentations by each panel, there will be an in-depth discussion about current status of 4G (LTE, Mobile WiMAX) essential patent IPRs, strategic patent portfolio development and management, and issue with licensing (patent pool) and NPEs.

Moderator : Alex G. Lee, Ph.D. (Principal, TechIPm, LLC)
Panels:
Jari Varrio, Ph.D. (IPR Director, Nokia)
James Maccoun, J.D. (Sr. Counsel, HP and former IPR Director, Motorola)
Junwon Lee (IPR Director, Samsung Electronics)
Hyeonwoo Lee, Ph.D. (NextG Mobile Program Director, Ministry of Knowledge Economy)


Panel Discussion Agenda

1. Recent trends in IPR for mobile telecommunication innovations. Are there any unique IPR characteristics in mobile telecommunication sector compare to others?

2. IPR landscape in 4G compare to 3G and 2G. What is the difference in IPR regime for LTE and Mobile WiMAX?

3. IPR for “essential patent” vs. “non-essential patent”. What is the difference in strategy?

4. Quantity or Quality. Which factor is important in patent portfolio development?

5. Best practice in strategic alignment: global IPR leaders’ experience.

6. Profit from IPR investment. How to measure the ROI?

7. Can a patent pool possible for 4G mobile? Licensing trends in mobile telecommunications compare to other IT areas. What likely be the royalty rates and is an expected role of patent pool for lowering the royalties? What is the global IPR leaders’ licensing policy and strategy?

8. Are there any IPR related matters in global trade?

9. Are there any threats from NPEs (patent trolls) in 4G? Pros and cons of NPEs in knowledge base economy. Will the harmonization and/or any kind of collaboration in patent law reform be necessary and/or effective for NPE issues?


Free Registration: http://www.patinex.org/RI/RI01E_n.jsp

Global Zigbee Patent Portfolios Analysis

Using the Innography, which is a business intelligent solution for IP management (http://www.innography.com/), the patent portfolios for Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.3) technologies are analyzed. To find the key IPR (issued patents and published applications) holders and their patent portfolios, semantic method is used for the keyword searching of the global patent data bases (USPTO, EPO, JIPO, KIPO, CIPO, WPO etc.)

As of Oct. 20 2009, the key IPR holders and their IPR shares for Zigbee are as follows:

Samsung (123), Philips (70), Broadcom (50), Motorola (40), Samsung Electro-Mechanics (35), Eaton (20), and ETRI (19).

Using the identified key IPR holders' patents, patent portfolios are compared with respect to portfolio quality measures (citations, number of patents, and technology coverage) and portfolio utilization measures (revenue, global families, and litigation information).

As for the Zigbee, Samsung and Philips form a leader group in portfolio management capability.


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Global Biometrics Patent Portfolios Analysis

Using the Innography, which is a business intelligent solution for IP management (http://www.innography.com/), the patent portfolios for Biometrics technologies are analyzed. To find the key IPR (issued patents and published applications) holders and their patent portfolios, semantic method is used for the keyword searching of the global patent data bases (USPTO, EPO, JIPO, KIPO, CIPO, WPO etc.)

As of Oct. 20 2009, the key IPR holders and their IPR shares for Biometrics are as follows:

IBM (328), Fujitsu (267), Philips (194), Precise Biometrics (175), MS (167), Siemens (164), HP (154), IGT (140), AMEX (126), Biometric Imaging (122), and Cross Match (110).

Using the identified key IPR holders' patents, patent portfolios are compared with respect to portfolio quality measures (citations, number of patents, and technology coverage) and portfolio utilization measures (revenue, global families, and litigation information).

As for the Biometrics, IBM and HP form a leader group in portfolio management capability.


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