Race for 5G News & Information Center 1Q 2015

Basics

“5G Networking: The Definitive Guide”

Link: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/5g-networking-faq,news-20629.html

“The race to 5G: Inside the fight for the future of mobile as we know it”

Link: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/does-the-world-really-need-5g/

“Understanding 5G - GSMA Intelligence”

Link: https://gsmaintelligence.com/research/?file=141208-5g.pdf&download

“5G: 2020 and Beyond”

Link http://www.amazon.com/5g-2020-Beyond-Ramjee-Prasad/dp/8793237138/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427104184&sr=1-1&keywords=5g

“Ericsson CEO Expects 5G Technology to be Ready in 2020”

Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-03-18/ericsson-ceo-expects-5g-technology-to-be-ready-in-2020

Key Technology Development

“Emerging Technologies and Research Challenges for 5G Wireless Networks”

Link: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1402/1402.6474.pdf

M2M & D2D

“Huawei Promises 4.5G & LTE-M in 2016”

http://www.lightreading.com/data-center/cloud-strategies/huawei-promises-45g-and-lte-m-in-2016/d/d-id/713971

“KT gets busy with Nokia and Ericsson for LTE-M and 5G”

Link: http://telecoms.com/404881/kt-gets-busy-with-iot-lte-m-and-5g/

“M2M & D2D Communication Patents for IoT Innovation Ranking”

Link: http://techipm-innovationfrontline.blogspot.com/2015/03/m2m-d2d-communications-for-iot.html

“Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications: Architecture, Performance and Applications”

Link:http://www.amazon.com/dp/1782421025/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=B2IJ3S99G1MX&coliid=I3PTGU05RLRFH1

“Smart Device to Smart Device Communication”

Link:http://www.amazon.com/dp/3319049623/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=B2IJ3S99G1MX&coliid=I22DY6QEGQPWRA

Massive MIMO & Millimeter Waves

“ZTE and China Mobile set new record exhibiting pre-commercial 5G 3D/massive MIMO base stations at MWC 2015”

Link: http://www.telecomtiger.com/Technology_fullstory.aspx?storyid=21151&section=S210

“SK Telecom, Nokia in 600 Mbps MIMO demo”

Link: http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=489074

“Massive MIMO for Next Generation Wireless Systems”

http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~slc/aulas/RCM/1415/Trabalho/papers/edfors.pdf

“Nokia Networks and SK Telecom pair up on millimeter-wave 5G”

Link: https://gigaom.com/2015/01/22/nokia-networks-and-sk-telecom-pair-up-on-millimeter-wave-5g/

“Nokia, DoCoMo test high-frequency mobile with an eye on 5G”

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2891192/nokia-docomo-test-highfrequency-mobile-with-an-eye-on-5g.html

“Millimeter Waves May Be the Future of 5G Phones”

Link: http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/millimeter-waves-may-be-the-future-of-5g-phones

“Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications for 5G Cellular:It will work!”

Link: http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/2014/IEEE%20PIMRC%20Keynote%20Sept%205%202014%20Final%20Ted.pdf

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Mobile Patent Acquisition Investment: Monetization Strategy

Recent development of new business models and marketplaces in patent monetization (online patent marketplace, patent auction, patent pool, patent aggregation etc.) brought a boom in investment for mobile patent acquisition. Investment for mobile patent acquisition requires a careful consideration of several strategic measures. A few examples for the strategic measures are monetization liquidity, ROI, and risks.

Several characteristics of mobile patent, however, lead to a unique evaluation methodology for the strategic measures:

1. Evaluation of market demand and dynamics.

Whether the patent is related to
consumer products:semiconductor chips/modules, devices (dongle, modem), handheld devices (cell phone, smartphone, PDA), computing devices (PDA, netbook, laptop, desktop); or
infrastructure products:Mobile base station including relay/femtocell, core networks; or
application products.

2. Evaluation of patent portfolio.

Whether the patent portfolio is/has
essential patent; orwidely accepted as an essential for product implementation; or
new market generation potential.

3. Evaluation of risks.

Whether it is
stable against invalidity claims; or
easily avoidable from infringement.


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


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Research In Motion's LTE Patents Can Help Apple Against Google

To evaluate Research in Motion's LTE patents, a keyword search of the USPTO patent data base has been performed. For completeness, patent data in the lists of patents declared essential to 3GPP LTE appear at the ETSI IPR Online website is also included. Total of 43 patents are identified for LTE RAN (Radio Access Network) products.

RIM's LTE patent portfolio is distributed among most of the key technology components for an implementation of the LTE baseband modem and many of the key technology components for an implementation of the LTE radio protocol software.

Base on the recent TechIPm's comparative analysis of Motorola’s and Nortel's LTE patent portfolio, it is expected that RIM's LTE patent portfolio can make up the relative weakness in Nortel's LTE patent portfolio over Motorola's LTE patent portfolio and may be a good defense tool for Apple against Google.

TechIPm, LLC (http://www.techipm.com/) provides patent portfolio evaluation service for patent due diligence in mobile business acquisition. LTE patent portfolio evaluation can provide the followings.

1. What is the quality of the LTE patent portfolio?

2. What are the strengths/weaknesses of the LTE patent portfolio?

3. Comparative analysis among the patent portfolios (e.g. InterDigital v. Motorola).

4. Who is the best candidate for mobile business acquisition considering the business integration and/or compatibility? (e.g. RIM + Nortel)

5.What are the potential risks considering the possible patent lawsuits?

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

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Mosaid's Nokia Patents May Be Risks to Google and Apple

Ottawa-based patent licensing company Mosaid (a famous NPE) announced an acquisition of Nokia's patents including LTE patents: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/01/mosaid-acquires-2000-nokia-patents-will-handle-licensing-litigation-for-a-cut/

Based on the recent TechIPm's comparative analysis for LTE patent portfolios among Nokia, Motorola, Nortel, and InterDigital, it is expected that Mosaid's aggressive administration of Nokia's LTE patents can be potential risks for Google's and Apple's smartphone business.

TechIPm, LLC (http://www.techipm.com/) provides patent portfolio evaluation service for patent due diligence in mobile business acquisition. LTE patent portfolio evaluation can provide the followings.

1. What is the quality of the LTE patent portfolio?

Categorize the identified patents through the evaluation process by technology in the standard specifications Key technology components for an implementation 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, and HARQ. Key technology components for an implementation of the LTE radio protocol: 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, and Mobility (Handover, Inter-RAT, Measurements).

Evaluate the level of essentiality Essentiality Index (EI): E1 : Patent disclosure is weakly related to LTE technical specifications E2 : Patent disclosure is partially related to LTE technical specifications E3 : Patent disclosure is related to LTE technical specifications overall E4.

2. What are the strengths/weaknesses of the LTE patent portfolio?

Comparative analysis among the patent portfolios (e.g. Nokia v. Motorola) by technology. Answer for what critical holes in patent landscape are there to be filled & who has patent portfolio to fill those holes.

3. Who is the best candidate for mobile business acquisition considering the business integration and/or compatibility?

4. What are the potential risks considering the possible patent lawsuits?

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


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Motorola Patents Can Help Google But not Enough

Recently, some IP experts commented about the Google's acquisition of Motorola's patents:

Motorola Patents May Not Help Google:
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/story/11234329/1/motorola-patents-may-not-help-google-opinion.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
Motorola patents may shield Google from suits:
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-08-23/business/29917281_1_motorola-mobility-motorola-patents-apple-patents

Some said Motorola's patents may help and some said may not. Who made a wrong opinion?
My answer is both are correct because the opinion can be completely opposite depending on methods used in the evaluation and many other factors.

Base on the recent TechIPm's analysis of Motorola's LTE patent portfolio, Motorola's patents may help Google. Considering the comparative analysis among patent portfolios owned by stake holders, however, Google may need additional patents to make more competitive patent portfolio.

TechIPm, LLC (http://www.techipm.com/) provides patent portfolio evaluation service for patent due diligence in mobile business acquisition. LTE patent portfolio evaluation can provide the followings.

1. What is the quality of the LTE patent portfolio?
2. What are the strengths/weaknesses of the LTE patent portfolio?
3. Comparative analysis among the patent portfolios (e.g. InterDigital v. Motorola).
4. Who is the best candidate for mobile business acquisition considering the business integration and/or compatibility? (e.g. LG + Nortel)
5.What are the potential risks considering the possible patent lawsuits?

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


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LTE Patents Due Diligence for Mobile Business Acquisition

TechIPm, LLC (http://www.techipm.com/) provides patent portfolio evaluation service for patent due diligence in mobile business acquisition. LTE patent portfolio evaluation can provide the followings.

1. What is the quality of the LTE patent portfolio?

Categorize the identified patents through the evaluation process by technology in the standard specifications Key technology components for an implementation 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, and HARQ. Key technology components for an implementation of the LTE radio protocol: 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, and Mobility (Handover, Inter-RAT, Measurements).

Evaluate the level of essentiality
Essentiality Index (EI): E1 : Patent disclosure is weakly related to LTE technical specifications E2 : Patent disclosure is partially related to LTE technical specifications E3 : Patent disclosure is related to LTE technical specifications overall E4.

2. What are the strengths/weaknesses of the LTE patent portfolio?

Comparative analysis among the patent portfolios (e.g. Nokia v. Motorola) by technology.

Answer for what critical holes in patent landscape are there to be filled & who has patent portfolio to fill those holes.

3. Who are the best candidate for mobile business acquisition considering the business integration and/or compatibility?

4. What are the potential risks considering the possible patent lawsuits?

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

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Qualcomm’s Mobile R&D Center in S. Korea

In recent media interview, Qualcomm’s CEO, Dr. Paul E. Jacobs expressed the planning of the second R&D center in S. Korea. Jacobs told that the details about the R&D center will be reviled when he is going to visit S. Korea in early February.

Jacobs expected the dramatic increase in mobile computing market based on 4G networks and smart phones in near future. He also expected that the strategic collaborations with S. Korean Mobile industry could make Qualcomm as the global leader in emerging mobile computing market.

Qualcomm is going to invest to S. Korean technology ventures and to expend business partnership with S. Korea’s mobile phone manufactures.


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4G Smart Phone Innovation Cluster in S. Korea

Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE: http://www.mke.go.kr/) announced the planning of mobile phone cluster formation for global leadership in 4G mobile phone innovations. According to MKE, about 200 M $ will be invested to the public-private collaboration project for the construction of 4G mobile phone innovation ecosystem.

All the stakeholders for mobile phones will be located in the cluster for a complete collaborative environment from R&D to production and field tests to keep the S. Korea’s leadership in rapidly changing global mobile phone market. Global mobile phone manufactures such as Samsung and LG and major S. Korea’s Telco such as KT and SKT expressed their participation in the mobile phone innovation cluster.


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4G & Smart Phone: Innovation Frontiers in 2010

LG Electronics demonstrated the one of the world’s first LTE download speed of 100Mbps at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2010. By connecting to the LG’s LTE USB Modem, LG presented the real-time demonstrations of full HD video files, video conferences and web-surfing at speeds up to 100Mbps for downloads and 50Mbps for uploads.

LG’s innovative breakthrough in LTE technology makes a very optimistic expectation for the future 4G mobile market, especially for smart phones, possible.

In recent article ‘4G in the U.S.A.’ (http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/standards/4g-in-the-usa

), IEEE expects the wide spreading of Mobile WiMax is in the United States. It also predicts the rising of LTE as a strong contender to the Mobile WiMAX, expressed as ‘WiMAX could soon be overshadowed by a rival technology’.

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Fixed-Mobile Broadband Convergence: S. Korea’s 4G Migration Strategy

Following the recent shift in mobile application market from voice to data, S. Korea’s major telecom operators are changing their business platforms:

KT (Korea Telecom), which is the largest fixed telecom operator, is merged with mobile telecom operator KTF to form a new KT to get a competitive edge in the emerging fixed-mobile broadband convergence market. KT’s recent aggressive making for smart phones (Samsung’s Omnia and Apple’s iPhone) is one example of the new KT’s business strategy utilizing the new integrated networks.

As of Jan. 1 2010, LT Telecom, which is one of the major mobile telecom operators along with KT and SKT, launched a new fixed-mobile broadband convergence network operator by merging with two other LG group’s fixed line operators – LG DACOM and LG POWERCOM. In recent media interview, the new LGT’s CEO Sang-chul Lee expressed that LGT will be the first 4G broadband mobile service provider based on LTE as soon as the Korean Communication Commission’s 4G spectrum allocation (700 MHz, 800 MHz, 2.1 GHz) policy is decided.


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M2M: S. Korean Telco’s New Strategic Options

S. Korea’s major telecom service providers – SKT and KT – selected M2M as a new strategic business option for the next generation profit center:

SK Telecom formed a new business division, ‘IPE (Industry Productivity Enhancement)’ center, for the development of new M2M innovative technologies and providing M2M based B2B services. SKT aims $20 B market creation based on M2M services for conventional industry’s productivity enhancement.

S. Korea’s largest Telco, KT, also plan to provide M2M based B2B services using 3G mobile and Mobile WiMAX networks. The KT's M2M services are also targeting several newly developing green businesses such as smart grids and environment monitoring services.

In parallel with the private sector’s efforts, Korean government (KCC: Korean Communication Commission) are going to launch several trial projects by providing M2M test-bed platform for public-private collaborations. KCC also plan to assign a unique IP address for each individual M2M devices to form a ‘network of things’.


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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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US Mobile Telecom Patent Portfolios Analysis

Using the Innography, which is a business intelligent solution for IP management (http://www.innography.com/), the patent portfolios for mobile communication 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 US issued patent data base.

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

Ericsson (3923), Nokia (3376), Motorola (3364), Samsung (2148), NEC (2061), Alcatel-Lucent (2013), Qualcomm (1997), MS (1884), Matsushita (1573), IBM (1544), Intel (1451), Sony (1356), and Nortel (1210).

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 mobile telecommunications, Nokia, Samsung, and Ericsson form a leader group in portfolio management capability.


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