the future of intellectual property and standards - what
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Intellectual Property Analytics
The Future of Intellectual Property and Standards - What Do the Data Tell Us?How do practitioners use the data?
Tim PohlmannCEO IPlytics GmbH
Patents and Standards Data
Patent Databases have little correlation to Standard Databases
from SSOs.
SSO databases are difficult and time-consuming to use.
Any SEP found is frequently divorced from other vital patent information.
Standard Database information can not be used for stand-alone analysis
e.g. Competitive Intelligence
GlobalPatentData
TechnicalStandard
Data
Patents and Standards Data weekly updated
120 MPatent
Documents
300.000SEP
declarations
4 MStandards /
Contributions
Worldwide Patents (USA, Europe, Korea, Japan, China, etc.)• Extended patent families• Legal status (pending/granted, lapsed/revoked/active/expired)• Worldwide reassignment information• Worldwide litigation information
Declared Standard Essential Patents• 30 SDOs and 11 patent pools• Patent and standards document ID• Licensing commitments (e.g. FRAND, reciprocity)• Patent Pools
Standards Documents• 2,5 M standards documents (Full text, author, supporting company)• 1,5 M standards contributions (Full text, author, contributing company)• Type (TS, TR, CR, WI), Status (revised, agreed, approved, noted)
PersonasPORTFOLIO MANAGER
• Does our IP strategy match our business strategy?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of our portfolio as it relates to SEP?
• How does my SEP portfolio compare to my competitors?
• How does my SEP portfolio relate to different technology generations?
• Are we aligned in our R&D efforts?
TRANSACTION AND LICENSING
• How can I be sure I have the advantage in negotiations?
• What patents and from whom should I buy, license?
• How can I monitor the changing SEP landscape?
• How can I monitor SEP licensing?
STRATEGIC IP ATTORNEY/LEGAL
• What SEP assets do we own?• What technologies/Standards are
covered by our SEP portfolio?• What is their value/status?• Are we declaring enough assets and
early enough?• Can we invalidate patents by standard
contribution related prior art?
SEP Declaration Data
3G, 4G and 5G SEP declarations over time
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
16000
18000
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
5G 4G 3G 2G
4G & 5G patent declarations (families) – no filter
BlackBerry (CA)Kyocera (JP)
Sony (JP)Fujitsu (JP)
Panasonic (JP)NEC (JP)
ETRI (KR)Lenovo (CN)
InterDigital (US)Sharp (JP)
NTT DOCOMO (JP)Apple US)CATT (CN)
Ericsson (SE)Nokia incl Alcatel-Lucent (FN)
ZTE (CN)LG Electronics (KR)
Samsung (KR)QUALCOMM (US)
Huawei (NC)
5G newcomer as to patent declarations (families)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
2016 2017 2018 2019
Guangdong Oppo (CN) Vivo Mobile (CN) ASUSTeK (TW)Shanghai Langbo Com. (CN) Fg Innovation (CN) Wilus Institute (KR)Unisoc former Spreadtrum (CN)
Patent Pool Data
HEVC Patent Pool Member and Outsider
HEVC & AVC pooled SEPs as to patent owner
NEC CorporationKT Corp.
HfiCanon Inc.
Fujitsu LimitedMaxell, Ltd.
Mitsubishi CorporationIP Bridge
Huawei S.A.Sony
Electronics And Telecommunications…Dolby Laboratories
Toshiba CorporationNTT DOCOMO, Inc.
SK TelecomJVC KENWOOD Corporation
Nokia GroupThomson Limited
LG Electronics Inc.Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
HEVC pooled SEPs
AVC pooled SEPs
*Samsung has recently terminated its pooled patents
4G/5G Patent Pools –AVANCI Example5G field of applicat ion
AVANCI Pool Member and Outsider
AVANCI Member AVANCI Outsider
AVANCI 5G Pool Share
AVANCI pooled
51%
Not AVANCI Pooled49%
As to number of granted patent families declared at ETSI for 5G standards specifications
Standard Contribution Data
Contributions submitted to WiFi (802.11) 5, 6 and 7
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Tgac (802.11ac - WiFi 5) Tgax (802.11ax - WiFi 6) Tgbe (802.11be -WiFi 7)
WiFi 5, 6 and 7 contributions per company
0 200 400 600 800 1.000 1.200 1.400 1.600 1.800 2.000
SR TechnologiesWILUS
InterDigitalQuantenna
EricssonCisco
ZTENippon Telegraph and Telephone
SamsungNewracomApple Inc.
LG ElectronicsMediaTek Inc
MarvellBroadcom
Intel CorporationHuawei
Qualcomm
WiFi 5 (802.11ac)WiFi 6 (802.11ax)WiFi 7 (802.11be)
Contributions submitted to HEVC (H.265) and VVC (H.266)
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
16000
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
H.265 (HEVC) H.266 (VVC)
Contributions per company
0 1.000 2.000 3.000 4.000 5.000 6.000
Alibaba GroupMotorola
Texas InstrumentsTechnicolor
Intel CorporationNokia Group
ETRIPanasonic
Kuaishou - KwaiMicrosoft
BytedanceEricsson
CanonTencent
Fraunhofer HHISony
SHARP CorporationInterDigital
LG ElectronicsMediaTek Inc
HuaweiSamsung
Qualcomm
AVC Contribution Count
HEVC Contribution Count
VVC Contribution Count
Correlating inventor names
A matter of correlation
41,00%
61,00%
79,00%
71,00%
78,00%
88,00%
Percentage inventor was named as the author of a approved contribution
Percentage inventor was named as the author of a contribution
Percentage inventor attended one of the 3GPP meetings
Cross check if the inventor (first name, surname, entity) listed on a verified vs declared 4G/5G patent has been at the 3GPP meeting, is author of a contribution,
is author of a approved contribution
Verified Essential patent Declared 4G/5G patent
Takeaways I
Licensing of SEPs:
o Access to patented standards is not straight forward as some SEPs are cross-licensed, other SEPs may be pooled and in some cases even pooled in more than one pool.
o IP professionals that want to license-in SEPs will need…a. an overview of existing patent pools, as well asb. an overview of SEP ownership as well as c. understanding the different SSO’s IPR policies
o …to have all information at hand to negotiate a license.
Takeaways II
Access to Data:
o IP professionals should not only consider information retrieved from patent filing data, but also monitor standardization activities through standards contributions or declarations of SEPs or pooling of SEPs to monitor market trends and competition.
o IP professionals need to be aware that while the market for 5G and other connectivity type technologies is fairly new, it is now time to be thinking about…
o what the business will need two, five and 10 years in the future? and
o hand in hand with that, what the patent portfolio will need to support that?
o Be proactive, not reactive. Do not get left behind!
IPlytics Platform Access
Access to declared patents and standard contributionsIPlytics Platform integrates weekly updated full text information on patent declarations and standard contribution:
• ETSI (e.g. 2G-5G, DVB, EVS etc.)• IEEE (e.g. Wifi 802.11series)• ITUT (e.g. AVC, HEVC)• IETF, ATSC, ISO, IEC, ARIB, ATIS, OMA • and many more.
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