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 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.

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