Why Apple chose to pay high patent fees to the company? -Patents, Huawei-IT information

According to the State intellectual property Office's latest license registration information, licensing patents to Apple last year Huawei 769, Apple licensed patent 98 to Huawei. That meant Huawei started to collect patent licensing fees from Apple.

Huawei Apple signed a patent cross-licensing agreement, although newly released, not news, because last year, has been passed down in the circle for a long time, if not China patent according to the requirements for the record, I believe that according to rumors.

Objective of said Huawei to Apple authorized patent and Huawei phone has nothing to do, to Apple authorized of patent guess have good more is 4G standard necessary patent, according to Ericsson and Apple of authorized costs estimates Huawei annual can received Shang billion dollars somewhat overestimated , because Ericsson not only has 4G standard necessary patent, more has many 2G, and 3G of standard necessary patent, so Ericsson of authorized costs certainly than Huawei high out many, Huawei's costs should be trade rumours before 600.08 billion dollars, well below the 2.5-Ericsson a year to charge Apple patent fee of US $ 750 million .

Said up phone patent charges, many experts are recommends phone brand should more application patent, because in and such as Ericsson, and Nokia, and Qualcomm, patent giant chat patent authorized Shi can less paid patent fee, actually far not so, because including Nokia, and Ericsson, and Qualcomm, hope charged patent fee of giant most fundamental not do phone, cross authorized fundamental no on up, Huawei and Ericsson of cross authorized more involved of is telecommunications equipment, Huawei phone also as need to Ericsson paid patent fee This Huawei cross licensing of Apple is Apple to it to pay royalties, but also because as a global mainstream telecommunications equipment provider Huawei 4G standards essential patents, and Huawei mobile phones correlation is not high, and of course Apple's patent Huawei mobile phones should be able to use these .

Brands need to establish their intellectual property strategies, however such patents are more useful when involved in patent disputes with competitors, like Samsung and Apple's patent wars, Ericsson, Nokia this phone patent licensing, is to rely more on negotiations, litigation or arbitration to solve the problem, rather than cross-licensing.

Early encountered Taiwan of media, on up Taiwan enterprise in communications field patent too less, face 5G is comes, said Taiwan Government encourages enterprise early layout patent, actually this claims is ignorance, communications standard of developed was several telecommunications giant monopoly, including Ericsson, and Huawei, and Qualcomm and Nokia, and ZTE,, other manufacturers because status or influence enough, fundamental into can't standard drafting organization, early layout patent fundamental no on up, phone manufacturers just communications technology standard of using who, Layout standards essential patents is impossible.

Even if Huawei can cross licensing to benefit, but also associated with the Huawei mobile phone not essentially no Huawei cell phone, this part of profits is also Huawei, ren will not reduce because of patent income the profit requirement for Huawei cell phones .

Millet has purchased a lot of patents, its real intention is not to Qualcomm, Ericsson and Nokia, but worried that Huawei, ZTE, Huawei shows overseas in this years brand payment of patent fees, but like Ericsson and Nokia in the market it is difficult to receive mainland mobile phone brand patent battles hard to avoid in the coming years, millet layouts in advance only.

A few days before the United States International Trade Commission, announced that they had decided on 8 337 investigation of electronics companies, 8 companies including Sony, Samsung, LG, Motorola, BlackBerry, as well as from China's Lenovo, ZTE, HTC. Trigger media city, phone patent insufficient reserves of another round of speculation, truth is the same, and the number of mobile phone brand in China patents are not necessarily related.

337 investigation in fact is one thing, ultimately paying patent fees is another matter, ZTE has six times been before United States International Trade Commission section 337 investigation launched, two prosecution charges four times when the prosecution loses, ZTE has not lost much, zhongxing surveyed stock reduce completely, because these days is that investors do not know.

The surveyed companies, such as Lenovo, ZTE, has a very mature patent operation team, is no stranger to 337 investigations, as the media and the consumer no need to worry, even if it failed to pay royalties, is in line with the international rules of normal behavior.

苹果为啥要向华为缴纳高额专利费？ - 专利,华为 - IT资讯

根据国家知识产权局最新公布的许可备案登记信息，去年华为向苹果公司许可专利769件，苹果公司向华为许可专利98件。这意味华为开始向苹果公司收取专利许可使用费。

华为苹果签署专利交叉授权协议，虽然刚刚公布出来，倒不是新闻，因为去年在小圈子里就已经传了很久，如果不是中国专利按规定要求备案，相信还会按传闻流传。

客观的说华为向苹果授权专利与华为手机无关，向苹果授权的专利猜得不错更多是4G标准必要专利，按照爱立信与苹果的授权费用估算华为每年可以收到上亿美元有点高估，因为爱立信不仅拥有4G标准必要专利，更拥有很多2G、3G的标准必要专利，因此爱立信的授权费用肯定比华为高出不少，之前业界传闻华为的费用应当在6000-8000万美元，远低于爱立信每年向苹果收取的2.5-7.5亿美元的专利费用。

说起手机专利收费，很多专家都建议手机品牌应当多申请专利，因为在与诸如爱立信、nokia、高通等专利巨头洽谈专利授权时可以少支付专利费，其实远不是如此，因为包括Nokia、爱立信、高通等希望收取专利费的巨头大都根本不做手机，交叉授权根本无从谈起，华为与爱立信的交叉授权更多涉及的是电信设备，华为手机也一样需要向爱立信支付专利费，此次之所以华为苹果交叉授权是苹果向华为支付专利费，也是因为华为作为全球主流电信设备商拥有4G等标准必要专利，与华为手机关联度并不高，当然苹果的这些专利华为手机应当可以使用。

手机品牌需要建立自家的知识产权战略，不过这些专利更多在与竞争对手涉及专利纠纷时有用，就像三星与苹果的专利大战，面对爱立信、Nokia这种不做手机的专利授权，更多还是要依靠谈判、诉讼或仲裁解决问题，而不是交叉授权。

年初遇到台湾的媒体，谈起台湾企业在通讯领域专利太少，面对5G即将来临，说台湾政府鼓励企业及早布局专利，其实这种说法纯属无知，通讯标准的制定被几家电信巨头垄断，包括爱立信、华为、高通以及Nokia、中兴等，其他厂商因为地位或影响力不够，根本进不了标准起草组织，及早布局专利根本无从谈起，手机厂商只是通信技术标准的使用者，想布局标准必要专利根本就是天方夜谭。

即使华为能够在交叉授权中获得利益，不过这些也与华为手机没有本质关联，没有华为手机，这部分利润也是华为的，任正非也不会因为有了专利收入而降低对华为手机的利润要求。

小米购买了不少专利，其真正意图不是为了高通、爱立信、Nokia而是担心华为、中兴，这几年虽然华为可以向海外手机品牌收取专利费，不过就像爱立信、Nokia一样在中国市场很难收到，未来几年大陆手机品牌的专利战难以避免，小米只不过提前布局。

前几天美国国际贸易委员会宣布，他们已经决定对8家电子产品公司展开337调查，这8家公司包括索尼、三星、LG、摩托罗拉、黑莓，以及来自中国的联想、中兴、HTC。引发媒体对大陆手机专利储备不足的又一轮炒作，道理也一样，这与中国手机品牌专利多少一样没有必然关系。

其实发起337调查是一回事，最终是否缴纳专利费是另外一回事，之前中兴曾六次被美国国际贸易委员会发起337调查，两次起诉方撤诉，四次仲裁时起诉方败诉，中兴并没有损失多少，这几天因为中兴被调查股价降低不少完全是投资者不了解内情。

对于此次被调查的联想、中兴等公司而言，都拥有很成熟的专利运作团队，对337调查并不陌生，作为媒体及消费者没有必要杞人忧天，即使败诉了要缴纳专利费，也是符合国际规则的正常行为。