Global 5G Standard Essential Patents Landscape 2Q 2018

To find the key IPR holders for the 5G NR (New Radio) Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) for global market, patents in the lists of patents declared essential to 3GPP TS 38 Release 15 specification series (http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/38-series.htm) appear at the ETSI IPR Online website (https://ipr.etsi.org/) are searched. Total of 6920 5G NR declared SEPs (WIPO patent applications) are searched as of 2Q 2018.

Huawei is the leader in global 5G NR SEPs declaration followed by Intel, Ericsson , Qualcomm, and Sharp. It is interesting to find the IPR leadership in global 5G NR SEPs declaration of Intel (cf. US case: http://techipm-innovationfrontline.blogspot.com/2018/08/5g-standard-essential-patents-landscape.html). It is also interesting to find the global 5G NR SEPs declaration by a US company IDAC Holdings, which is one of Subsidiaries of InterDigital.

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5G Standard Essential Patents Landscape 2Q 2018

To find the key IPR holders for the 5G NR (New Radio) Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) for the US market, patents in the lists of patents declared essential to 3GPP TS 38 Release 15 specification series (http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/38-series.htm) appear at the ETSI IPR Online website (https://ipr.etsi.org/) are searched. Total of 4935 5G NR declared SEPs (including 2110 pending & 930 published USPTO patent applications) are searched as of 2Q 2018.

Ericsson is the leader in 5G NR SEPs declaration followed by Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Huawei (including Futurewei Technology), Qualcomm, and LG Electronics. It is interesting to find the IPR leadership in 5G NR SEPs declaration of Sharp and Huawei. It is also interesting to find InterDigital’s small number of 5G NR SEPs declaration and Nokia’s no declarations, which are one of IPR leaders in 3G & 4G SEPs.

The top 6 most declared specifications for the 5G NR SEPs are TS 38.213 (Physical layer procedures for control), TS 38.214 (Physical layer procedures for data), TS 38.211 (Physical channels and modulation), TS 38.331 (Radio Resource Control (RRC); Protocol specification), TS 38.212 (Multiplexing and channel coding), and TS 38.321 (Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol specification).

For more information, please contact Alex G. Lee (alexglee@techipm.com).

Reference: 5G New Radio Patents for Standards Data 2Q 2018

Link: https://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/5g-new-radio-patents-for-standards-data-2q-2018

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LTE Standard Related Patents Landscape 1Q 2017

By exploiting a big data patent search and analysis tool - the IPlytics Platform (Ref. https://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/iplytics-platform-introduction), TechIPm, LLC (www.techipm.com) extends its more than 6 years of custom research of LTE patents to include a large number of new candidates for the LTE standard essential patents (SEPs). The IPlytics Platform data sources cover over 80 million patent documents for 98 worldwide countries, over 60 million scientific articles, information regarding over 3 million companies, about 2 million standards documents from 96 standard setting organizations including over 200,000 SEPs declared at the major standard setting organizations (SSOs).

LTE issued patents for the LTE UE (cellular phones, smart phones, PDAs, mobile PCs, etc.), base station (eNB) products, and other RAN (Radio Access Network) related products are searched in the USPTO as of 1Q 2017.  The searched patents are further reviewed with respect to 3GPP Release 10 technical specifications (LTE-Advanced) for LTE RAN technical specifications: PHY: TS 36.101, 211, 212, 213, 305; L2/L3 Protocols: TS 36.300, 304, 321, 322, 323, 331, 355 and 3GPP Release 11 technical specifications for CoMP (TR 36.819), 3GPP Release 12 technical specifications for EPDCCH (TS 36.211, 213) and D2D (Device to Device; TR 36.843) Communications.

The identified LTE standard related patents cover not only ETSI declared SEPs but also candidates for SEPs that were not declared. Nearly 4000 US issued patents are finally selected as the LTE standard related patents. The identified LTE standard related patents are also updated for the current assignees.

The identified LTE standard related patents are further categorize through the evaluation process by technologies for implementations of the LTE baseband modem ( OFDM/OFDMA (Frame & Slot Structure, Modulation), SC-FDMA (PUSCH, PUCCH), Channel Estimation (UL RS, DL RS, CQI), Cell Search & Connection (PRACH, DL SS), MIMO (Transmit Diversity, Spatial Multiplexing), Resource Management (Resource Allocation, Scheduling), Coding (Convolution, Turbo), Power Control, HARQ, Carrier Aggregation, Relay, and Positioning Technology) and radio protocols (Random Access, HARQ, Channel Prioritization, Scheduling (Dynamic, SPS), Protocol Format (PDUs, SDUs), Radio Link Control (ARQ), PDCP Process (SRB, DRB, ROHC), Security (Ciphering, Integrity), System Information, Connection Control, Mobility (Handover, Inter-RAT, Measurements), QoS, MBMS, and Carrier Aggregation). To evaluate the essentiality of a LTE patent, patent disclosures in claims and detail description for each LTE related patent also are compared to the LTE technical specifications.

Leaders in LTE standard related patents IPR ownership as of 1Q 2107 are Qualcomm followed by InterDigital, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Google, Ericsson, Nokia (+ Alcatel-Lucent), Apple, Panasonic, Optis Wireless Technology LLC, Intel, Huawei, NTT Docomo, ZTE, BlackBerry, Amazon, NEC, Texas Instruments, and ETRI. Here, most of Amazon’s LTE patents were acquired from LG Electronics.

For more information, please contact Alex Lee at alexglee@techipm.com .

Big Data Analysis for Standard Essential Patents

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-data-analysis-standard-essential-patents-lee-ph-d-j-d-clp?published=t

IPlytics Platform: Intelligence IP Analytics SaaS

It is excited to announce that TechIPm entered into an agreement with IPlytics for the promotion and sale of the IPlytics Platform in China, Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan and the United States of America.
The IPlytics Platform is an intelligence IP analytics SaaS to analyze patent strategy, technology trends, market developments and a company’s competitive position using the  innovative big data & machine learning techniques.

If you are interested in the IPlytics Platform, please contact Alex G. Lee (alexglee@techipm.com).

LTE Patents for Standards Data 2Q 2016

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lte-patents-standards-data-2q-2016-alex-g-lee-ph-d-j-d-clp?published=t

LTE Standard Relevant Patents Insights

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lte-standard-relevant-patents-insights-alex-g-lee-ph-d-j-d-clp?published=t

LTE Standard Essential Patents 2Q 2015

TechIPm researched patents for the LTE standard regarding UE (cellular phones, smart phones, PDAs, mobile PCs, etc.) and base station (eNBs, Femtocells, Relays) products, issued in the USPTO as of June 30, 2015. TechIPm’s research identified more than 1700 patents that are related to the LTE standard.

To evaluate the essentiality of a patent for the LTE-Advanced standard and the key features of the LTE-Advanced Enhancements standard, patent disclosures in claims and detail description for each identified LTE related patent are compared to the final versions of the 3GPP Release 10 technical specifications for the LTE RAN (Radio Access Network), Release 11 technical specifications for CoMP, Release 12 technical specifications for EPDCCH and D2D (Device to Device) Communications. Total of 495 patents are selected as the potential candidates of the LTE standard essential patents (SEPs) (their patent disclosure are related to LTE technical specifications overall).

Among 39 IPR holders, LG Electronics accounts for 16% of the IPR share followed by Samsung Electronics, Qualcomm, Optis Cellular Technology, InterDigital, Ericsson, Google and Nokia.

TechIPm’s research also uncovered increasing IPR share of the LTE SEPs by the active monetization entities (entities exploit LTE SEPs for monetization purpose actively) including the patent trolls. IPR share of the LTE SEPs by the active monetization entities accounts for 28%, which implies the increasing potential litigation risks. TechIPm’s research identified many LTE SEPs owned by the active monetization entities that are used for several patent litigations already.

For more information, please contact Alex Lee at alexglee@techipm.com .

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