April 26, the 22nd anniversary of World Intellectual Property Day, has seen a new phase of global awareness of intellectual property protection. Especially domestic mobile phone manufacturers, although the company started late, but on the high-speed development of the train, but the peak is everywhere limited, forced to "reverse the car", so eat a lot of dumb losses, all the way in the bumps and bumps to grow up, for intellectual property rights more attention, directly promoted to the enterprise and strategic position, have begun to build their own patent fortress.
It is gratifying that in just a few years of efforts, it can be said that it has won a stage victory, and local enterprises have achieved remarkable results in patent rights, and have been the leaders of the patent list in recent years. Among them, the representative manufacturers are Huawei, OPPO and so on. I have to admire, Huawei is almost like opening and hanging, all the way to the top. Even if Huawei has suffered from unequal suppression, it seems that it has not affected its research in the field of scientific research, especially in terms of the number of patents, and has been refreshing its achievements and occupying the top position all year round.
Top 10 patents in the field of 5G communications
According to the latest "Global 5G Patent Activity Report (2022)" released by the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology, as of December 31, 2021, the number of 5G standard essential patents declared worldwide exceeded 64,900, and the number of effective global patent families exceeded 46,100. Huawei ranked first with 14% of the number of effective global patent families, Qualcomm ranked second, accounting for 9.8%, Samsung third, accounting for 9.1%, and the fourth to tenth places were LG, ZTE, Nokia, Ericsson, Datang, OPPO and Sharp. Among them, domestic enterprises accounted for 4 seats, Huawei dominated the list, followed by OPPO, ZTE and Datang.
In fact, in addition to Huawei, the momentum of another domestic mobile phone manufacturer should not be underestimated. Although the green factory has always taken a low-key route, its research in the field of patents is not low-key at all. Moreover, the patents cover a wide range of fields, such as 5G communications, artificial intelligence AI, fast charging, chips, images, video standards, antenna radio frequency, folding mobile phones, etc. have accumulated a wealth of high-quality patents.
Officials said that as of March 31, 2022, OPPO had more than 77,000 patent applications worldwide and more than 38,000 authorized globally. Among them, the number of invention patent applications exceeded 69,000, and invention patent applications accounted for 90% of all patent applications. It has a patent layout in more than 40 countries and regions around the world.
The domestic patent list dominates the list
According to the data, since 2016, the number of OPPO patent applications has entered the top 10 in the country for consecutive years, the number of patent authorizations since 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. According to third-party statistics, OPPO's patent strength in the field of 5G ranks among the top ten companies in the world.
Frequent visitor to overseas patent lists
According to the data, oppo PCT (short for patent cooperation treaty) patent applications and the number of patent applications of the European Patent Office are second only to Huawei among Chinese enterprises, and their patent strength ranks among the best in the industry. 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 from 2019 to 2021, and ranked second among Chinese enterprise applicants for three consecutive years. In 2021, OPPO ranked 2nd among Chinese patentees and 13th in the world in the ranking of patent applications in Europe. In the same year, it ranked among the top 50 in the world in terms of patent grants in the United States.
It is worth mentioning that in March 2020, OPPO joined the IoT patent licensing platform Avanci, through which it licenses the necessary patents for global 3G and 4G wireless communication standards to the IoT and Car Networking markets. With this patent advantage, many luxury car brands around the world, including Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Bentley and other well-known car companies, have to contribute a little revenue to OPPO every year, and finally it is our turn to "sit on the benefits of fishermen". At the same time, it also highlights OPPO's professional strength in the field of communications.
In addition, in May last year, OPPO joined the HEVC Advance patent pool as a licensor, and its HEVC/H.265 standard essential patents entered the HEVC Advance patent pool, HEVC/H.265 patents were licensed to more than 200 enterprises through the Access Advance patent pool, and at present, the HEVC Advance patent pool includes more than 13,700 patents worldwide, and will continue to increase in the future.
Unlike foreign technology companies, domestic mobile phone manufacturers such as Huawei and OPPO are desperately building patents, not to become industry hegemons, on the contrary, OPPO follows the laws of social development, respects intellectual property rights, and advocates reasonable fees. Seeking a development posture and reaching patent cross-licensing with qualcomm, Nokia, Ericsson, Sharp and other well-known technology companies is enough to see OPPO's strategic decision on patents, on the one hand, to ensure its own development needs, escort global business, and resist strong enemies. The second is to lay the foundation for exploring the future, which has a very positive significance for itself and even the entire industry.