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According to news on December 9, today, Huawei and OPPO Guangdong Mobile Communications Co., Ltd. announced the signing of a global patent cross-licensing agreement, which covers the basic patents of cellular communication standards, including the 5G standard.

OPPO paid for the license of Huawei's advanced 5G technology it has been revealed that the cross-licensing agreement reached between Huawei and OPPO provides a package of patent licensing arrangements for both parties' standard necessary patented technologies such as 5G and related products. According to the agreement, OPPO paid for Huawei's advanced 5G technology license. At the same time, Huawei has also obtained the required OPPO patent license for OPPO's research on wireless standards.

In the past year, nearly 20 global manufacturers in the smartphone, smart car, network, IoT and other industries have obtained Huawei patent licenses (including Samsung, OPPO, NORDIC, etc.). We estimate that about 350 million 5G phones and 1500 million connected cars will be licensed by Huawei this year.

"although Huawei has signed some license agreements with domestic companies, OPPO is by far the largest and has the largest number of patents." Huawei disclosed.

Fan Zhiyong, minister of intellectual property rights of Huawei, said: "after more than 20 years of continuous innovation, Huawei has formed a number of high-value patent packages around the world, including 5G, Wi-Fi, audio and video, and so on. Huawei is pleased to have reached a cross-licensing agreement with OPPO. Mutual recognition of the value of intellectual property rights among enterprises can promote the innovation cycle of "input-return-re-investment" in high-value standard technology research, enhance the sustainable innovation capability of the industry, and provide consumers with more competitive products and services. "

Patent fees cannot be charged for the sake of fees. Huawei has been increasing its fees in basic research and development for a long time. "the more difficult it is, the more you have to cling to innovation." Huawei's financial report shows that R & D spending in 2021 is 142.7 billion yuan, the highest in history, accounting for about 22% of the annual revenue, ranking second in the world in the EU industrial R & D investment list.

It is reported that R & D investment in the first three quarters of this year has reached 110 billion yuan, more than the same period last year.

In April this year, Huawei Xinsheng Community published the minutes of the meeting on Patent Licensing Business report (hereinafter referred to as "minutes") issued by Ren Zhengfei. The summary points out that it is necessary to formulate intellectual property strategies with the times to serve the commercial success of companies, and actively explore technology secret licensing models and industrial promotion mechanisms.

It is mentioned in the summary that the need to build a reasonable price benchmark to allow the industry to use Huawei's patented technology fairly and reasonably will not only get an appropriate return on research and development, but also help Huawei establish an image as an innovator in the international community.

Huawei's intellectual property Department stressed that patent fees cannot be charged for the sake of fees, nor should they be too low. if they are too low, it will curb the innovation of the whole society, and no one is willing to invest in research and development any more, which will form a de facto monopoly. It also does not meet the principle of fairness, reasonableness and non-discrimination required by law.

"at the same time, we should be prepared to fight a 'protracted war'. We should not seek quick victory or fear of defeat. Charging more and less is a success. But charging is not the ultimate goal. The most important thing is that we sort out the relationship between the two sides through communication and negotiation." It is mentioned in the article.

It is understood that for more than 20 years, Huawei has carried out innovation around the ICT standard, and has formed high-value technologies and related patent packages such as 5G, WIFI, audio and video codec worldwide. At the same time, it is also pre-researching next-generation standard technologies such as 6G, WIFI7 and AI Video Coding, as well as new standard technologies such as Star Flash short-range communication technology and UWA ultra-high-definition video technology.

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