IPRdaily introduction:On March 16, 2021, Huawei released the 2020 edition of the White Paper on Innovation and Intellectual Property, showcasing the company's achievements in innovation and intellectual property. In the white paper, Huawei also released its top ten inventions. It is worth mentioning that behind each innovation, Huawei lists the relevant patents, which are corresponding to the products.

On March 16, 2021, Huawei released the 2020 edition of the White Paper on Innovation and Intellectual Property, which showcases Huawei's achievements in innovation and intellectual property. In the white paper, Huawei cited publicly available patent data to prove that its innovation achievements had caught up with and surpassed international peers years ago.

This chart shows that Huawei began to distribute patents in Europe and the United States from around 2000. Since 2005, the number of patents applied in Europe and the United States began to rise in a straight line. This suggests that today's level of innovation is also a process of long-term accumulation. According to the white paper, Huawei holds more than 40,000 valid authorized patents and more than 100,000 of them (patents of the same family may be filed in multiple countries).

In the white paper, Huawei also announced its top ten inventions, which are Polar Code high-speed parallel decoding, Optical Cross Connect, Da Vinci 3D Cube computing engine, 5G super uplink, easy and direct file transfer with one touch, Eagle Wings folding screen, fusion storage system, and automotive computing and communication architecture.

It is worth mentioning that Huawei lists the relevant patents behind every innovative invention. The patent corresponds to the product. For example, folding screens and related patents.

Throughout the white paper, Huawei also lists relevant patents when it introduces other products. The task is easy to say, but difficult to do. We often refer to this as a product-patent mapping. This is also an important content of enterprise patent work, the basis of other work. Whether it is the future patent layout or the existing patent combing, we should first make clear what products our patents correspond to.

When the company had only three or five patents, the patent-product mapping was easy to operate. However, when the number of patents in an enterprise reaches thousands or even tens of thousands, the mapping between products and patents becomes difficult, especially in the case of product iteration and update. Many patents can correspond to multiple products, and patents of different product lines may cross correspond, which is not easy to do well.

It is also clear from the white paper that Huawei's success is inseparable from its solid intellectual property work.