Top Companies and Universities mapping the 6G Technology
While 5G networks are still expanding, companies have already set their sights on 6G. Research labs, telecom giants, and universities are actively shaping the next generation of wireless technology. Strategic partnerships, patent filings, and white papers are surfacing at an increasing pace. Identifying the right innovations early is crucial. Instead of guesswork, a deep dive […]
4 Smart Strategies for Patent Owners to Get Better Licensing Deals on SEPs
From 2015 to 2020, new Standard Essential Patent (SEP) families in telecom jumped threefold from 6,457 to 17,623. The 5G standard alone accounts for over 150,000 declared patents since 2015. Despite this increase, implementers continue challenging essentiality claims and pushing back on royalty demands for SEP Licensing. Essentiality checks are performed with different evaluation methods […]
Quickly Identify Non-SEPs To Optimize Your SEP Licensing Strategy
Identifying Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) is a resource-intensive task, especially when dealing with a large patent portfolio. In this process, manual analysis is the preferred method, but examining patents that are unlikely to be SEPs can lead to inefficient portfolio management and limit strategic decision-making during SEP licensing. Therefore, to avoid investing valuable resources into […]
Philip’s Strategy To Declare One Patent as a Standard Essential Patent in Two Standards
Generally, patents are filed with a particular standard in mind. Take, for instance, a scenario where researchers filed a patent related to a concept in 5G technology. The typical route for obtaining returns from such a patent would involve declaring it essential to 5G within the 3GPP organization. But have you ever wondered what the […]
5G Companies: Which Players are Leading the Market?
This is the third article of the 5G series. The first article covered the features that set 5G apart from its predecessors, along with new technologies. In the second article, its application areas in various domains have been discussed. Given its extensive application areas, one wonders—which companies are doing research on 5G? Recognizing a shared […]
Find Standard Essential Patents in Your Portfolio with GreyB’s proven manual methods
Standard essential patents (SEPs) facilitate technical coordination through standard-setting organizations. However, there are instances where the status of a declared SEP being truly essential to the standard remains unclear. That is why when we published the 5G Report to determine True 5G SEPs in 2020, media outlets and community forums bombarded us with a recurring […]
Atlantic IP’s Litigation Campaign: What Telecom Companies Need to Prepare For!
While one cannot deny NPEs’ role in innovation protection, heavy litigation from them does create uncertainties and turmoil for companies. Do you remember when 5G networking became the talk of the town? Well, that’s also when NPEs were on the prowl, suing left and right. One such litigation campaign led by Atlantic IP had given […]
5G Chip Makers: 12 companies Leading the Semiconductor Market
Note: The article was first published on Nov 11, 2020. It has recently been updated on Mar 16, 2022. In our previous article, we talked about the 5G chipset market. In this article, we will particularly discuss the top 5g chip makers leading the 5G semiconductor market. There are many companies participating in 5G chipset […]
Avoid SEP Litigation with 5G in the Healthcare Sector! GreyB found the solution
With our previous articles on 5G in the Healthcare sector, it is apt to wonder if turbulence brought by the introduction of 5G to the various other technical domains is waiting to shake the Healthcare sector too. The e-Healthcare market around the globe is flourishing and the major contributor is the pandemic that expedited the […]
5G in Healthcare: Which Companies should you collaborate with?
The previous article laid ground to explain the stakeholders in the Healthcare domain and how 5G is affecting each of them. Moving forward we answer a question every business head (you too?) have on their mind next – ‘which companies should you collaborate with?’ 5G is on the verge of complete standardization. Due to this, […]
5G is Transforming the Healthcare Industry
5G in healthcare is quickly becoming one of the most talked-about trends across industries, wouldn’t you say? And it’s not only because it’s projected to be used in everything from self-driving cars to smart cities within our lifetime, but also because this technology will increasingly influence all other emerging techs such as artificial intelligence (AI), […]
How 5G companies became the competitors of Cloud Gaming Companies?
Have you been busy building fantastic games and are unaware of all the recent happenings in the industry? By recent happenings, I mean the increased involvement of telecom companies in the cloud gaming domain? That’s right. Chances are you could be losing revenue to telecom companies in the future. How is that possible? Have you […]
Acquire Standard Essential Patents in 5G to grow your portfolio
With the deployment of 5G networks speeding up across the world, 5G SEP declarations are also skyrocketing. All the SEP holders are aggressively declaring their 5G SEPs to ETSI to strengthen their position in the industry. Nokia, for instance, announced last year that they declared over 3000 5G families to ETSI (source). Samsung also claimed […]
What is the Automotive Industry doing about 5G? A sneak peek at their Patent and 3GPP contributions
A year ago, in 2020, we published our take on the state of 5G and why automotive industries should be investing in 5G unless they want to find themselves in hot water. Gladly, a year later, things have changed for the better. Automobile companies are actively working on 5G technology and are defining the industry’s […]
Who Owns Core 5G Patents? – Essentiality Check on 5G Declared Patents
This report is an update to the report titled “Exploration of 5G Standards and Preliminary Findings on Essentiality” published May 26, 2020. This report covers more than 700 technical specifications and technical reports related to 5G technology covered in the 3GPP Portal. The scope of the prior report covered 12,002 patent families, having 63,985 individual […]
5G Chipset Market: Key Drivers, Opportunities, and Challenges
The future of connected things, which seemed a little sci-fi just a few years ago, is now right at our doorsteps. Gadgets for smart homes, connected cars, industrial sensors that share data every second, and all the building blocks of this future are being tied together by 5G. It has now become more important than […]
