Webinar | Is your natural food dye compliant, shelf-stable, and ready to scale?
24th July | 12 PM ET: Register Now
Webinar | Is your natural food dye compliant, shelf-stable, and ready to scale?
24th July | 12 PM ET: Register Now
When a licensor walks in with thousands of declared 5G patents, the instinct is to assume they have leverage. This webinar shows you exactly why that assumption is wrong and how implementation data changes the negotiation entirely.
The most expensive assumption in 5G licensing...
Royalty stacking in 5G is real and growing. As more industries, automotive, satellite, and industrial IoT, become licensing targets, the stakes of accepting a demand at face value increase proportionally.
A small reduction in per-unit royalty, multiplied across hundreds of thousands of products, is not a rounding error. It is a business outcome.
“Royalty stacking remains a significant concern in 5G, particularly for implementers in verticals where per-device margins are thin and licensing exposure is only beginning to be quantified.”
GSMA Industry Report on 5G Licensing, 2023
“Licensees who approach SEP negotiations with technical implementation evidence are significantly better positioned than those who rely solely on legal arguments.”
IAM Strategy 300, Global Expert Commentary, 2024
If your company builds, sells, or licenses 5G products or advises those who do,this is the data you should have going into every licensing discussion.
If you manage 5G licensing relationships, handle inbound demands, or set royalty strategy ,this is the data layer your negotiations are missing.
Companies building 5G products beyond smartphones, where the declared vs. deployed gap is largest and the royalty overpayment risk is highest.
Attorneys preparing a licensee's position or stress-testing a licensor's claims. Implementation data shifts the burden of proof, understand how to use it.
Licensors put declared patent counts on the table and set royalties from there. Licensees accept that framing and negotiate from a position of assumed weakness. The data tells a different story.
No governing body verifies declared SEPs. Any company can self-declare a patent as essential to 5G without submitting a claim chart. The declared count is an unverified number.
Even if a patent genuinely covers a 5G feature, that feature may not be implemented in your product category. Only 37% of features across Release 15–19 are actually deployed commercially.
When royalties are anchored to declared counts, licensees end up paying for features their products never implement. That gap represents millions of dollars in overpayment at scale.
Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory pricing should be anchored in what you actually implement. In practice, it’s anchored in what licensors declare. The two numbers are very different.
The Agenda
Licensors put declared patent counts on the table and set royalties from there. Licensees accept that framing and negotiate from a position of assumed weakness. The data tells a different story.
Most 5G licensing demands are built on declared patent counts. Licensees walk into negotiations against a number they cannot audit. We start by laying out exactly how that happens and why it has gone unchallenged for so long.
Across all 5G releases from Release 15 to Release 19, only 37% of features are deployed in commercial products. We walk through what this gap looks like by release and why it changes what you owe.
Release 15 forms the backbone of most commercial devices. Features from Releases 16, 17, and 18 are largely undeployed. See what is actually shipping across network infrastructure, smartphones, automotive, and satellite.
Deployment data broken down across four product categories. Network infrastructure leads at ~60%. Automotive and satellite are substantially lower. What this means for licensees in each sector.
Request a feature-by-feature breakdown. Use industry deployment rates as leverage. Target Release 16/17 heavy portfolios for scrutiny. Know your own implementation profile before you sit down. A practical checklist, not theory.
Your Hosts
The insights in this webinar came out of an internal research effort to answer a question the industry wasn’t answering.
Specializes in patent portfolio management and SEP landscapes. Brings the licensing strategy context to deployment data, what the numbers mean when you are sitting across from a licensor.
Heads the 5G telecom licensing strategy team. Led the development of the 5G feature taxonomy and the implementation analysis across network infrastructure, smartphones, automotive, and satellite.
Get the full recording free. The 5G feature taxonomy, the deployment data, the licensor portfolio comparison and the four steps to use it all in your next negotiation.
