{"id":2235,"date":"2025-03-31T12:25:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2025-03-31T14:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:31:45","slug":"huawei-celebrates-milestone-of-230-patent-licensing-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/huawei-celebrates-milestone-of-230-patent-licensing-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei celebrates milestone of 230 patent licensing agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Context: <\/strong>Huawei has had an eventful 12 months. Most recently, it announced its intention to join Via Licensing Alliance\u2019s HEVC\/VVC patent pool as a VVC licensor and licensee (March 20, 2025 ip fray article<\/a>). And, at the turn of the new year, it settled its WiFi 6 standard-essential patent (SEP) dispute with Netgear (January 4, 2025 ip fray article<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s new: <\/strong>The company today released its annual report for 2024 (PDF<\/a>), announcing that \u2013 as of December 31, 2024 \u2013 it had signed more than 230 licensing agreements (including both inbound and outbound).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Direct impact and wider ramifications:<\/strong> Huawei\u2019s net profit saw a 28% year-on-year drop. However, this is largely due to a huge surge in R&D investments, according to Rotating Chairwoman Meng Wanzhou. The company spent 179.7 billion Chinese yuan ($24.7 billion) on R&D in 2024, representing 20.8% of its revenue and a 22.4% year-on-year surge. It has now spent over 1.2 trillion Chinese yuan ($165 billion) on R&D over the last decade. As of December, more than half (54.1%) of the company\u2019s workforce was made up of R&D staff (113,000 people) \u2013 suggesting that the company is doubling down on becoming a technology leader and licensor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

In its annual report today, Huawei stated that the company is an industry leader in patents in multiple major standard fields, including cellular communications, short-distance communications, and audio and video codecs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024, it signed major deals with Amazon and Vivo (March 5, 2024 ip fray<\/strong> article<\/a>), both of which involved 5G patents. It also helped launch Via LA\u2019s Voice Codec pool alongside Dolby, ETRI, JVCKenwood, and NTT(December 10, 2024 ip fray<\/strong> article<\/a>) and transferred over 760 3GPP-related patent assets to Ueran Technology, a U.S.-based non-practising entity, that were previously owned by Samsung, Sharp, Innovation Technologies Lab, and Alcatel Lucent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its report, Huawei also emphasized its commitment to the ICT sector, noting it has reached cross-license agreements with several major ICT companies across the globe. In 2024, those included deals with EDMI for \u201ca cellular IoT Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) license, including NB-IoT, LTE-M and LTE Cat. 1\u201d (April 11, 2024 ip fray<\/strong> article<\/a>) and AVM, the German WiFi router market leader (April 15, 2024 ip fray<\/strong> article<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year has already been eventful for Huawei, given its settlement with Negear and its announcement of joining Via LA\u2019s HEVC\/VVC pool, but we will likely see more soon. Last July, the company sued Taiwan\u2019s MediaTek over several unknown SEPs. Earlier this month, MediaTek survived a jurisdictional challenge in the UK prong of that case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The company\u2019s 2024 annual report showed a 22.4% year-on-year increase in R&D spending, suggesting it plans to continue ramping up its outbound licensing activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}