Huawei Voice Community announced the latest news, and Chairman Ren Zhengfei issued the "Patent Licensing Business Report" and published the minutes of the meeting at the same time, once again making a clear point out the Huawei brand patent. Ren Zhengfei pointed out that Huawei's patents cannot be charged for the sake of charging, and the industry should use Huawei's technology more fairly and reasonably, but it should not set the fee too low to avoid curbing the development and innovation of the whole society.
In the patent licensing business report, Ren Zhengfei pointed out that it is necessary to establish scientific and reasonable intellectual property values and defend themselves through intellectual property rights. Huawei's use of other people's patents should be reasonably paid, others use Huawei's patents must also pay, and can not be set too low, otherwise it will curb the innovation of the whole society, no one is willing to invest in research and development. It must be clear that charging is not the ultimate goal, can not be charged for the sake of charging, which includes a part of the cost of "research and development failure", and must form a positive cycle to fight a "protracted war".
According to the data, Huawei invested a total of 142.7 billion yuan in R&D in 2021, with a R&D expense ratio of 22.4%, and a cumulative R&D investment of 845.6 billion yuan in the past 10 years. By the end of 2020, Huawei held more than 40,000 patents (more than 110,000), of which more than 90% were invention patents; as of December 2021, It ranked first in the global 5G standard rankings, with Huawei accounting for 15.39% of the share.
According to information released by the European Patent Office on April 6, Huawei applied for 3,544 patents in Europe last year, surpassing South Korea's Samsung to rank first. According to the information provided by the US database, Huawei ranked fifth in the US patent ranking in 2021, which was the same as the number of patent applications in the previous year, and it was also the only brand in the top 10 that did not show negative growth.
It is precisely because of unremitting investment in research and development that Huawei can sit on an equal footing with international giants in the number of patents and have the ability to realize the authorized use of cross-border patents. Huawei is firmly implementing the instructions of the boss, patents can not be sold too expensive, because Huawei also wants to use other people's patents; patents can not be sold too cheaply, research and development is not charity, there is no money to make money to invest in research and development, encourage innovation?
In March last year, Huawei released the Innovation and Intellectual Property White Paper 2020, which first announced Huawei's 5G standard charges, with a maximum cap of $2.50 per multimode 5G mobile phone (the exchange rate was about 16.2 yuan at the time), and providing a reasonable percentage rate applicable to the price of mobile phones. At that time, some people pointed out that Huawei "sold cheaply" because the fees of European and American companies were higher, even several times that of Huawei.
In the case of Nokia, for example, the maximum cost of a single license for 5G devices was 3 euros (about 23.2 yuan at the time), and the maximum fee for Ericsson was 5 US dollars (about 33 yuan at the time). The general standards in the industry are much higher than Huawei, and even some companies will charge up to 2/3 of the price, and the charge of a flagship machine is about 100 yuan, compared with Huawei is really very reasonable.