Mobile phone patent stick will shuffle again in action domestic mobile phone manufacturers

Europe and the United States raised the phone giant patent stick, is accompanied by the pace of internationalization of the domestic mobile phone manufacturers step by step. Although Al Carter, PHILPS and Ericsson and other Western giants are gradually fading out of the mobile phone production and sales market, but it has a huge number of patents still dominate the development of the market.

CCID Consulting data show that in 2003, China's mobile phone exports for the first time exceeded 1 million, it is this year, Europe and the United States began to become aware of the threat from china. The same year, Motorola first proposed for domestic enterprises to export to overseas mobile phone mobile phone charge royalties, followed by NOKIA, Ericsson, Alcatel and other enterprises have joined the charge Chinese manufacturers patent fee negotiations.

Afterwards, from China under market pressure, foreign mobile phone giant to collect royalty rates from product sales price down to approximately 5% 8%~13%, but even so, some experts assert that will be enough to get the domestic mobile phone manufacturers reshuffle.

In 2004, PHILPS was on the basis of two patents in Germany for the GSM software, the Dusseldorf court filed lawsuits in Germany for the world telecommunication exhibition Shanghai dibite Industrial Co Ltd, to reduce its exports to the EU mobile phone.

Intellectual property and standard PHILPS (Chinese) general manager, Haick ASJA October 2005 said in an interview, the PHILPS patent fee is not high, PHILPS's patent licensing projects have been implemented in the global market for many years, but also in many court litigation has been recognized in the world. "We must maintain a unified patent fee standard in the global market, because we want to receive antitrust constraints, so we can't give any discount, also can not discriminate against any company, in fact we are standard patent fees from time to time will be adjusted."

February 24th, Ericsson spokesman Lin Dekao (AseLindskog) also suddenly announced to the outside world, said the company filed a patent lawsuit against Samsung samsung. Linde test pointed out that Ericsson and Samsung on the right to the use of mobile phone patent agreement expires in December 31st of last year, Samsung Electronics continues to use the patent without the Ericsson mobile phone to renew the agreement under the. Linde said Samsung Electronics infringed their patents in digital access (GSM), general packet radio service (GPRS) and electronic data acquisition equipment (EDGE), etc..

And other domestic mobile phone companies are also faced with Samsung, Dbtel and other enterprises encounter difficulties, according to the survey data show that South Korea Institute of information technology assessment, in the 400 GSM mobile phone company has 99% patents, foreign patents. GSM phone related patents may increase to 4000. Do not use these patented technology, any mobile phone manufacturers will not be able to produce a GSM phone.

According to a study published last year by ROAGroup, a South Korean high-tech research firm, it is expected that South Korean producers of European standard 3G phones will need to pay 20% of their mobile phone price in 2005.

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The GSM patent is divided into four layers: the first layer is a layer of chip patent, this patent is mainly in the hands of TI, NOKIA, ADI, ATI and a few large enterprises; the second layer is the underlying protocol patents, were in the hands of more than a dozen western and Japanese companies, such as Motorola, NOKIA, Al Carter, PHILPS, SIEMENS and other third; for operating system (OS) technology patents, such as Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, Ericsson, NOKIA and Psion have Symbian operating system, Palm operating system etc.. The above mentioned three patents belong to the basic patent. Internationally renowned large manufacturers in the hands of more than 85% of the basic patent.

The fourth layer is the patent application system, such as MP3 mobile phone, mobile phone patent e-mail device patent, mobile phone audio activated dialing technology patents, patent applications, methods for the design of user interface of single pen handwriting recognition software patents etc..