IPRdaily Introduction: Huawei's White Paper on Innovation and Intellectual Property 2020 was recently held in Shenzhen. At the meeting, Ding Jianxin, head of Huawei's intellectual property department, unveiled the company's licensing fees for 5G multimode phones, which will be capped at $2.50 per phone, with a reasonable percentage rate applicable to the price of the phone. Huawei expects intellectual property revenue of $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion between 2019 and three years this year.

In the afternoon of March 16, 2021, Huawei released the press conference of "Intellectual Property Protection, Driving Innovation", at which it announced that the charging standard for 5G patents would be $2.50 /unit, and a special patent website was launched on Huawei's official website to promote related patents.

At the meeting, Huawei announced that it currently has more than 100,000 patents and more than 40,000 patents in the same family globally. Huawei expects its patent licensing revenue to be between $1.2 billion and $1.3 billion in 2019-213, and although 2021 has just started, Ding Jianxin, head of Huawei's intellectual property department, said the revenue in the three years will be no less than $1.2 billion.

Huawei through the form of the press conference, the official launch of 5G patent charging standards, indicating that in the future Huawei will gradually shrink in the mobile phone business, the official launch of patent charging chariot. It is also an international practice for Huawei to recoup its huge investment in research and development through patent fees.

With the introduction of patent charging standard by Huawei, it will inevitably bring global patent litigation due to patent charging, not only with foreign enterprises, but even with domestic enterprises.

The announcement is sure to spark another debate in American politics about Huawei's model.

As a matter of fact, Huawei is doing business with intellectual property rules defined by Westerners. It remains to be seen whether the initiation of 5G patent charges will lead to the United States tightening its ban on Huawei again.

From：IPR Daily     

Date：March 17, 2021