World Intellectual Property Day, celebrated annually on April 26, aims to build worldwide awareness of respect for knowledge, science and the protection of intellectual property, and to create a legal environment that encourages intellectual innovation.
Intuitively understand the R & D investment and innovation capabilities of a technology enterprise, the number of patents is the most "simple and rough" way to understand, this time of year, domestic technology companies will show a wave of muscle, and the OPPO of the patent factory is no exception.
In recent years, OPPO's patent property rights layout has continued to make breakthroughs, especially in key patent areas such as 5G, AI, imaging, fast charging, etc., has created its own patent moat, and in OPPO's patent pool, there have been quite a few patents landed on smart terminal products such as mobile phones, providing strong technical support for OPPO's boutique explosive strategy and high-end layout, and also escorting OPPO's global market expansion.
It is understood that OPPO officially established a special intellectual property department in 2014. Since 2016, oppo's patent application volume has entered the top 10 in the country for consecutive years, the number of patent authorizations in 2017 has entered the top 10 in the country, and the number of invention patents authorized for two consecutive years from 2018 to 2021 has entered the top 3 in the country.
△ In 2019, the international PCT patent ranking was top 10, and OPPO ranked fifth
According to data released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), OPPO ranked in the top 10 international PCT patent applications for three consecutive years in 2019-2021 and the second among Chinese enterprise applicants for three consecutive years.
In 2021, OPPO ranked in the top 50 in the world in terms of patent grants in the United States.
At present, OPPO has patents in more than 40 countries and regions around the world. As of March 31, 2022, OPPO had more than 77,000 patent applications worldwide and more than 38,000 grants worldwide. Among them, the number of invention patent applications exceeded 69,000, and invention patent applications accounted for 90% of all patent applications.
The investment in R&D, forward-looking technology layout and technological innovation with "science and technology for people" have enabled OPPO to accumulate rich intellectual property and patent assets in the fields of 5G, AI, imaging, and flash charging.
Specific to the technical field, in terms of 5G, as of March 31, 2022, OPPO has laid out 5G communication standard patents in more than 30 countries and regions around the world, completed a total of 4600+ family global patent applications, and declared 2000+ family 5G standard patents at ETSI.
According to the 2021 Global 5G Standard Essential Patent Claims Report released by IPlytics, a leading German research institute, OPPO ranked 9th in the world; OPPO submitted more than 5,000 standard manuscripts in the 3GPP.
In addition, in the latest "Global 5G Patent Activity Report" released by the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology, OPPO holds 4.5% of the effective 5G global patent family, ranking among the top ten in the world.
In addition, in the field of AI, as of March 31, 2022, OPPO has applied for more than 2650 patents worldwide in the field of AI; 10,191 global applications for image patents, authorizing more than 4,258; in the field of fast charging, OPPO fast charging patents have applied for about 3,365 patents worldwide, with a cumulative authorization of about 1,866, in order to cumulatively open flash charge patent licenses to more than 40 enterprises, adding 8 new ODM/OEM licensees; in the field of folding screens, OPPO folding mobile phones have more than global layout 1000 pieces, including OPPO Find N Seiko imitation vertebral hinge design and water drop form hinge design, patent layout more than 200 pieces.
Not only that, OPPO safeguards its legitimate rights and interests with a solid special train layout and litigation response capabilities to ensure the safe operation of global business.
OPPO respects intellectual property rights and advocates reasonable fees, on the other hand, OPPO resolutely opposes unreasonable high-priced charges for patents and resolutely opposes malicious acts of coercing licensees to negotiate and accept unreasonablely high-priced license fees through litigation.
Since 2020, OPPO has successfully resolved unreasonable patent fee requirements from Fractus, Siemens, Sisvel, Sharp and other foreign patentees, and OPPO's performance in dealing with Sharp, Sisvel and other related cases has also been highly praised by the industry, which has a huge demonstration and guidance role for chinese courts to hear similar cases in the follow-up. It is worth mentioning that in April 2021, the OPPO and Sharp patent litigation case was selected as one of the top ten intellectual property events in Shenzhen in 2020.
As the world's leading technology enterprises, OPPO has always attached importance to its own patent accumulation, and constantly strengthened the investment and exploration of cutting-edge technologies, consumers finally enjoy the technical benefits brought by these patents, and OPPO also realizes the beautiful vision of "science and technology for people, to be good to the world".