Are All of your standard essential patents declared to ETSI?
Recently, we noticed that many companies, especially with big patent portfolios, may not be aware that some of the patents in their portfolio are getting delayed in being officially listed as Standard Essential. As standard-essential patents are worth a good amount of money, delaying or missing to declare these patents to ETSI might result in […]
How We Helped a Telecom PRB Director Design a Patent Organization and Analysis System Trained to Think Just Like Him
For big companies with active R&D departments, keeping track of the many thousands of individual patents that often make up their patent portfolios frequently represents a daunting task, the burden of which tends to fall on patent review boards, or PRBs. At a moment’s notice, corporate higher-ups expect PRBs to be able to provide them […]
5G Applications: A Host of Niches Ranging from Healthcare to Automotive
5G – Is it truly disruptive or just a few Mbps faster than the current network? After a while of bringing life to an idea that existed only in theory years ago, 5G is finally here! The advent of ubiquitous 5G, an evolution of wireless 4G LTE, has left the entire telecom world abuzz about […]
How a Patent Monetization Analysis Helped a Major Asian Telecom Company Prepare to Defend Patent Infringement Lawsuits in the US
In 2017, we heard from an executive who was heading up a team that specialized in mobile and augmented reality-related technology at a large Asian telecom company. She had a troublesome problem having to do with patent monetization—the process of generating revenue from patents—which she couldn’t realistically solve herself. The researchers on her team were highly […]
LiFi vs. WiFi: Why LiFi Will Not Replace Your WiFi Router Anytime Soon?
LiFi is a communication method that uses LEDs instead of dongles or antennas to provide internet access and data transfer at ultrahigh speeds. In 2015, after several lab tests, LiFi achieved a record-breaking data transfer rate of 224 Gbps. In later “real-world” tests by the Estonian startup Vélmenni, transfer speeds reached 1GB per second, 100 […]
How Blockchain can solve the Telecom Industry’s major challenges?
Blockchain, with its emergence, has brought companies of several domains on their doors and one of those domains is telecommunications. As communication service providers are openly accepting the disruptive power of Blockchain technology in their systems, the market of the amalgamation is increasing at a steady pace. Valued at $46.6 million in 2018, the market […]
Blockchain in Telecom: Which companies are leading the research?
There is a lot of research and implementation going on to provide solutions for the telecom industry using Blockchain technology. This study could give you an idea about the level of intensity in which the research is going on by various companies. Knowing which companies are researching and on which applications can help you anticipate […]
Top 5 Universities Leading the Research in Wireless Communication
Did you know that LiFi can transfer data at speeds up to 224 Gbps? The sad fact is, the technology is still in the development phase and it’s going to be a while before it reaches our households. While LiFi takes its own sweet time, we still have the good ol’ wireless communication standards to […]
Telecom Patent Litigation Report: Down and Down, the Numbers go
As 5G technology is approaching realization faster, a surge could be noticed in the patent filing activity by telecom companies. China is at the forefront, in terms of filing numbers, as major telecom giants like ZTE and Huawei are filing patents internationally with good momentum. Qualcomm, the top innovator in 4G LTE, is not behind […]
Find how these 3 patents are solving the call drop problem
Imagine – You are in the middle of a very important telephonic conversation – maybe with a friend, or a potential investor, or business partner – pitching your breakthrough million-dollar idea that you believe is revolutionary and could change the world for better- and between the pitch, the call drop happens. What a bummer! Unfortunately, […]
How we use 3G and GSM concepts to invalidate 4G LTE Patents?
Of late, we have been performing a lot of invalidation searches on patents of 4G LTE. And I noticed a weird pattern – call it insight if you would like to – that I didn’t discover earlier while working on patents of 4G. The technique that I used in this patent prior art search for […]
How these researchers have overcome one major challenge of LiFi?
LiFi technology has been in the public eye since Prof. Harald Haas first introduced it to the world in his Ted talk in August of 2011. LiFi uses characteristics like intensity, and the frequency of visible light is used to communicate data between two devices (transmitter and receiver). A powerful and complementary alternative to radiofrequency […]
BlackBerry Vs. Nokia – Why we believe US8861433 can be invalidated?
I am very fond of Nokia and its products. Mostly because I feel they have greatly contributed to developing various 3GPP standards. So when I found out that Blackberry was suing Nokia (Source) and that too for a 3GPP related invention, I was intrigued. To quench my curiosity, I took a deep dive into the […]
Which Companies were Researching in LiFi before Harald Haas?
In our last post of the LiFi series, we learned how LiFi Technology evolved in the past few years. We also learned how the companies are trying to make LiFi a household name. In this article, we will be exploring which companies were researching LiFi before it was introduced to the public. In case if you […]
Top Non Practicing Entities (NPEs) Holding Patents in 4G LTE
In our last post in the LTE series Top 50 Innovative Companies of 4G LTE, we shared that Qualcomm is one of the top innovators in this space, filing a maximum number of patents in the 4G LTE domain. It was not surprising at all, as the company is already a prominent player in the communication sector. […]
LiFi Technology: From Illumination to Communication
A tall gentleman is standing at the center of the stage. All eyes in the audience are glued to him. The audience is in a state of confusion and is skeptical after what he announced. The hall is so silent that one could hear the heartbeat of the person sitting next to them. The tall […]