Huawei has made frequent moves recently. On April 6, Huawei Xinsheng community released the meeting minutes of the e-mail patent licensing business report issued by Ren Zhengfei, President of the company, which said that we should establish the image of Huawei innovators through reasonable patent fees; We should be prepared to fight a “protracted war”. We should not seek quick victory or fear defeat. We will succeed in collecting more and less. Charging is not the ultimate goal. The most important thing is to clarify the relationship between the two sides through communication and negotiation.
According to Xinhua News Agency on April 6, Huawei ranked first in the number of patent applications of Companies in the European Patent Office in 2021, with a total of 3544 patents, ahead of Samsung and LG in South Korea.
get ready for a “protracted war”
The minutes of the meeting said that in the past, Huawei’s intellectual property rights were for self-defense and ensuring its business security. Through years of accumulation, high-value patent packages have been formed in 5g, WiFi 6, audio and video coding and decoding, optical transmission, optical intelligence and other fields, with a certain voice.
Source: Huawei voice community
Huawei said that Huawei should establish a reasonable price benchmark and let the industry use Huawei’s patented technology fairly and reasonably. While obtaining appropriate R & D returns, it is also conducive to Huawei’s image as an innovator in the international community. Huawei uses other people’s patents and pays reasonably, so as to establish intellectual property values and soil conducive to innovation all over the world.
Some netizens believe that Huawei’s collection of patent fees is reasonable. Huawei said: “patent fees should not be charged for the sake of fees. They should not be too low. If they are low, it will curb the innovation of the whole society. No one is willing to invest in R & D, which will form our de facto monopoly and do not meet the principle of fairness, rationality and non discrimination required by the law.”
Huawei also said that it should be prepared to fight a “protracted war”. It is not afraid of quick victory or defeat. It is successful to collect more and less. However, charging is not the ultimate goal. The most important thing is to clarify the relationship between the two sides through communication and negotiation. In the process of negotiation, gradually forge a team good at communication and negotiation. “When one day we reach the leading position in the world, we can reasonably distribute the value chain.”
to open the patent “treasure chest”
Last year, Huawei released data on patent revenue.
In March 2021, Huawei estimated that the intellectual property revenue from 2019 to 2021 would be $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion. Huawei also announced the charging standard for 5g multi-mode mobile phones: Huawei’s maximum patent license fee for a single mobile phone that follows the 5g standard is $2.50, and provides a reasonable percentage rate applicable to the selling price of mobile phones. Users of Qualcomm and Nokia think that Huawei’s 5g mobile phone charges are lower than those of Huawei’s and Ericsson’s.
In July 2021, Huawei announced that it had reached a patent license agreement with a supplier of Volkswagen Group. The agreement includes Huawei 4G standard essential patent (SEP) license, which is the largest license agreement reached by Huawei in the automotive field.
It is speculated whether patent fees will become an important source of revenue for Huawei. In this regard, song Liuping, Huawei’s chief legal officer, said in an interview that intellectual property income will not become Huawei’s main source of income. Huawei’s main business is to operate products and services, which is also the focus of the company’s long-term revenue.
Huawei said that Huawei is a company focusing on product revenue and has something in common with many product companies in the industry in terms of intellectual property strategy; We have the basis of mutual patent cross licensing. Using each other’s patented technology can provide better products for the market, and ultimately benefit consumers and customers, thus prospering the whole industrial chain.
Huawei also said that for some technical secret achievements, if Huawei does not produce and sell relevant products, it may be “Shelved”, resulting in waste, which is not conducive to the prosperity of the industrial chain and ultimately affect Huawei’s own development. Huawei should explore the appropriate licensing mode and promotion mechanism to authorize external manufacturers to solve the problem of industrial competitiveness and give full play to its commercial value.
In the heart voice community of Huawei, some Huawei employees said that it is highly and challenging to explore and think about the authorization and licensing of patents / technical secrets from the perspective of prospering the industrial chain.
Huawei employees also said that patents and black box technology are the basic for the survival of the company.
Source: Huawei voice community
European Patent Office company with the largest number of applications
According to the latest news, Huawei won the first place in the number of applications of European Patent Office companies in 2021 after 2019.
According to the latest statistics released by the European Patent Office on April 5, Huawei ranked first in the number of patent applications of Companies in the European Patent Office in 2021, with a total of 3544 patents, ahead of Samsung and LG in South Korea, Xinhua reported Oppo, ZTE, Baidu, Xiaomi and Tencent are also in the top 50 of the list.
Source: European Patent Office website
Huawei’s annual report shows that in December 2021, the European Commission released a list of 2500 companies with the largest R & D investment in the world, and Huawei ranked second. Since the establishment of its first R & D center in Sweden in 2000, Huawei has set up 23 R & D centers in Europe.
Huawei attaches importance to the protection of its own innovation achievements. It is understood that since applying for the first Chinese patent in 1995, Huawei has continued to carry out patent layout in China, the United States, Europe and other countries and regions.
This is the harvest of Huawei’s long-term R & D. Huawei said that the company insists on putting more than 10% of its sales revenue into research and development every year. In 2021, Huawei’s R & D expenditure was 142.7 billion yuan, accounting for about 22.4% of the annual revenue. The cumulative R & D expenditure in recent 10 years exceeded 845 billion yuan.
Some netizens said: “Huawei is getting better and better. I hope to go to a higher level.”
Source: microblog
Pay attention to patent layout and make Huawei one of the largest patentees in the world. By the end of 2021, Huawei had held more than 45000 families of valid authorized patents (more than 110000), and more than 90% of the patents were invention patents. Huawei ranked first in the number of patents authorized by the State Intellectual Property Office of China and the European Patent Office in 2021, and fifth in the number of patents authorized by the U.S. patent and Trademark Office in 2021.
