LTE patent pool accounts for around 10% of LTE standard essential patents IPR share in the US

Google announced addition of its LTE patents acquired from Motorola Mobility to Via Licensing's LTE Patent Pool (Ref. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/04/09/google-joins-wireless-patent-group/25478395/). Via Licensing's LTE Patent Pool Licensors are AT&T, China Mobile, Clear Wireless, Deutsche Telekom, DTVG Licensing, Google, Hewlett-Packard, KDDI, NTT DOCOMO, SK Telecom, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, ZTE. Before the joining of Google, ZTE was only the LTE smartphone manufacture among LTE Patent Pool Licensors.

In recent TechIPm, LLC’s 4G LTE standard essential patents research for the US market leader among 4G LTE UE (cellular phones, smart phones, PDAs, mobile PCs, etc.) and base station (eNB) product manufactures and innovators  (Ref. http://techipm-innovationfrontline.blogspot.com/2015/01/4g-lte-patents-for-standard_8.html), Google ranked 6th in IPR share for 4G LTE standard essential patent candidates as of 1Q 2014. By the addition of Google as its licensors, Via Licensing's LTE patent pool now accounts for around 10% of LTE standard essential patents IPR share in the US.

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