For a long time, it has been European and American companies that collect patent fees from Chinese companies, and now there are Chinese companies that charge them patent fees, and Huawei is the first Chinese company to dare to carry out this business, which shows that Huawei has enough confidence.
Speaking of patent fees, the most well-known is Qualcomm's patent fees, which have relied on its monopoly advantages accumulated in CDMA technology for many years to become the biggest winner in the 2G, 3G, and 4G eras.
In the 2G era, the world's mainstream technology is GSM technology, when Qualcomm's CDMA is not optimistic about other companies, so Qualcomm had to continue to develop CDMA technology, so it monopolizes CDMA technology, in the 2G era CDMA and GSM are listed as two major mobile communication technologies; 3G three major technical standards are CDMA as the core technology; patents in the 4G era are more scattered, but because 2G, 3G and 4G coexist, Qualcomm continues the patent fee model through bundling.
In this way, Qualcomm obtained a huge profit, patent fees for it to contribute about a third of the revenue, but contributed the vast majority of profits, which shows how lucrative the patent fees, it is the huge profits of patent fees that allow Qualcomm to continue to develop more advanced mobile communication technology, while raising a huge team of lawyers.
Other European and American companies have basically continued Qualcomm's model, on the one hand, they do have patent advantages, and on the other hand, they have a strong team of lawyers, so that Chinese companies have to give in to their big stick and obediently pay patent fees.
In the face of the patent stick of European and American enterprises, the first to launch a challenge is Huawei, 2003 Huawei is actually not too strong, when The European and American communication equipment manufacturers still have a huge market share in the domestic market, Huawei has just started to develop, but Huawei dared to counter-sue Cisco, a well-known network equipment supplier in the United States, at that time, and finally won the lawsuit, which greatly shocked European and American companies.
After all, just two or three years ago, China's DVD production enterprises in the face of europe, america, Japan and South Korea's 3C, 6C alliance charged by the high patent fees do not dare to resist, obediently pay patent fees, the final DVD patent fee even exceeds the production cost of DVD, Chinese companies can not bear the burden of patent fees, and eventually the DVD industry declines rapidly, but in just two or three years, China has Huawei, a well-known enterprise that has come forward to counter-sue the Well-known enterprises in the West and won the lawsuit.
In the following 10 years, Huawei continued to consolidate its patent advantages, since a few years ago, it has repeatedly ranked first in the global market for patents, the number of patent authorizations obtained in Europe and the United States has ranked at the forefront of the industry, and after Huawei, there are OPPO and other Chinese companies applying for patents in the European and American markets, and European and American companies recognize that Chinese companies have really stood up.
However, in those more than 20 years, Huawei did not ask for patent fees from European and American companies, but buried its own business, and successively made the communication equipment and mobile phone business the first in the world, but now Huawei's mobile phone business has fallen into recession for well-known reasons, Huawei has time, and also needs to make up for its more than 100 billion R& D investment with patent fees, and began to collect patent fees from European and American companies.
In the period when Huawei buried its head in the development of communication equipment and mobile phone business, European and American consumers enjoyed affordable Huawei products, but their current practices have led to Huawei in turn charging patent fees to their companies, and their consumers can only buy expensive goods, and now Huawei has begun to charge patent fees to their companies, and the price of goods will rise further, which is probably the result they did not expect, right?