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We have added a number of new speakers to the line-up for IPBC Europe 2019! Hear from the likes of Fergal Clarke from
@lenovo
, Claire Le Floch from
@Atos
, Chris Storm from
@Uber
and many more! Find out why you can't miss out here:
#IPBCEurope
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@angusmcdangus
@JossWaddyProEU
@OwenJones84
The state funding came from taxpayers - individuals and corporations - and from borrowing raised in capital markets. Almost none of the tech we use today has its roots in the USSR.
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BREAKING NEWS - Jennifer Yokoyama has been named as Microsoft's new head of IP, replacing Erich Andersen. She was previously head of the IP litigation group at the company.
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Polsinelli's Todd Dickinson makes point that while Alice is popular in parts of tech many
#IP
stakeholders feel differently
#IPSoftware
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Of course, even if he had patented it he could still have made it freely available. All having a patent does is give you options.
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We are delighted to announce that
@schestowitz
has become the latest recruit to IAM's editorial staff. Famed for his disapassionate, even-handed, meticulously-researched, highly-knowledgeable coverage of global patent issues, Roy will be a wonderful addition to our team.
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Big news out of China this morning. A new central appeals court for all patent cases is set to be created. It will be housed within the People’s Supreme Court in Beijing. That will mean a Chinese CAFC.
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The chances of a small business being hit by a patent troll suit are infinitesimally low. There are 30 million small businesses in the US. NPEs of all kinds filed a total of less than 2,000 patent lawsuits against all categories of defendant in 2018. You do the maths.
Patent trolls lawsuits hurt real small businesses owned by everyday people, most of whom don’t have millions of dollars required to defend themselves through a patent trial. Check out our new video of one business owner’s story.
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Apple acknowledged internally that Qualcomm’s IP & tech were strong, but stopped paying royalties. The chip maker’s income decreased, its stock price plummeted, 1,500 people were laid off. Apple’s valuation soared. The reality of efficient infringement.
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This article is also a very good argument for investors to look closely at the patents of the start-ups they are giving money to. They are key assets and need to be treated as such. That means a deep dive, not a casual glance.
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Today's Qualcomm decsion is not only a big win for the chipmaker, it is also a significant one for DoJ anti-trust head Makan Delrahim. He now has a major court decision to validate his views on IP licensing. That has important, wider implications.
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BIG BREAKING NEWS - IAM understands that the 8,500-strong Intel wireless patent portfolio - due to be auctioned in August - has been taken off the market as the company enters into talks with a buyer about a potential purchase. More details to follow
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The Biden Administration's decision to back a covid vaccine IP waiver may be more symbolic than practical, but symbolism matters. A lot. If you can waive IP for one crisis, why not others? Crossing the line once makes it much easier to do again. That's why pharma will be worried.
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We rarely agree with Mike and TechDirt. We stand shoulder to shoulder with them on this.
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Blackberry patent sale very close but still not over the line. “We are literally down to the last few important items now. Both parties are working hard to get this finished, and we expect to reach a definitive agreement very soon," says CEO John Chen.
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It’s hard to describe just how bad an idea this is. For starters, though, imagine being a US patent owner in China if this were to happen.
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Ahead of President-elect Biden’s inauguration tomorrow, Andrei Iancu bids a fond farewell to
@uspto
staff ...
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Patent Litigation will provide critical insights to help you navigate the ever-shifting US litigation landscape. We are excited to announce the first speakers confirmed for this fantastic event: Andrei Iancu of the
@uspto
, Jacqueline Bonilla, Tim Bedard
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After seven years and many memorable moments,
@richardglloyd
signs-off as IAM editor. Thanks so much for everything, Richard. We wish you the very best for what comes next.
We're also delighted to announce that
@jwschindler
is taking on the editor role.
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With today & patent troll speech last week, Iancu - who started off in his role cautiously - has signalled it’s no more Mr Nice Guy. He’s clearly decided that the US patent system needs rebalancing & he’s going to play his part. Some in BigTech will hate this.
Pointed comments from Iancu
@aipla
pushing back on criticism of change in PTAB claim construction standard: Some have said that change makes it easier to preserve low-quality patents - that's curious because it's same standard as in district court and the ITC
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Start-ups with patents have better outcomes than those without.
@PujalsJosep
of
@Ponti_IP
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This was potentially existential for Qualcomm. It survived totally intact and, to the world, unscathed. That is a huge win.
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CAFC Judge O'Malley at
#IPLeadesrhip2019
- I agree with Director Iancu the "troll" language has got to stop
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An absolute humdinger of the “patent the copyright on that trademark” genre in today’s issue of The Times ...
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The
@uspto
has just confirmed to IAM that the office will be issuing new guidance on 101 eligibility today. Not known at this stage if this is a minor update or something more significant. Stay tuned!!
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Scottish nationalist MP
@petewishart
named chairman of UK parliament's all-party IP committee. Wishart was in bands Big Country & Runrig.
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BREAKING NEWS - The UK Prime Minister's Office has confirmed to IAM that the UK will not be participating in the UPC system: "Participating in a court that applies EU law and bound by the CJEU is inconsistent with our aims of becoming an independent self-governing nation."
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It turns out that many hundreds of US lawsuits previously attributed to “trolls” each year are much more likely to have been initiated by that great American icon - the lone inventor. This matters politically as it is a potential narrative changer.
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The world has spent eight months talking about covid IP waivers when it should have been focused relentlessly on vaccine manufacturing capacity and distribution. The latter has never been dependent on the former. Discuss …
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It may not feel like it now, but once the Covid-19 crisis has passed (as it will), there are going to be very big opportunities in IP. This week's IAM Saturday Opinion.
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This is not a great look for Apple. Discovery is hugely expensive and can be immensely destructive when plaintiff and defendant resources are mismatched, but when they’re not things can turn up ...
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Very significant development. The UK Supreme Court has not issued its decision in this case and maybe won't now. If it doesn't, it would - presumably - leave the concept of the FRAND injunction established by the lower courts in place. That would be a very big win for SEP owners.
Game over in Unwired Planet and Huawei dispute
According to sources close to Unwired Planet and Huawei, the parties have reached a settlement. The talks between the companies became public in January. Now it seems the parties have reached a conclusion:
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#IPBCChina
is underway in Beijing. Whirlpool's Deborah Vaughn and China Mobile's Jia Xiaohui giving two perspectives on China's IP growth
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Remarkable speech by
@uspto
Director Iancu puts him at odds with some of the market's biggest patent owners
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Thirteen different kinds of NPE identified. That is very useful and demonstrates that, actually, it’s all a lot more complex than many would like the world to believe.
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Report this morning that South Africa has become the first country to award a patent to an invention in which AI machine DABUS is named as the inventor. Details are scant, but this could be a big moment.
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All of us at IAM are devastated to hear of the death of IP Hall of Fame inductee Q Todd Dickinson, a hugely significant figure in the IP world for 25 years plus and, far more important, a truly fine man. We send our condolences and love to his family and many friends. RIP.
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Efficient infringement works. That’s why companies do it. While Apple refused to make royalty payments, 1,500 Qualcomm employees lost their jobs. And Qualcomm is a big business. Imagine how such scenarios affect smaller ones.
#Qualcomm
effectively granted
#Apple
a late-payment discount worth billions of dollars: earnings forecast mentions one-time payment
#patents
#frand
#standards
#antitrust
$AAPL $QCOM
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We’re not doing our job properly if we shut out certain views. It’s up to our readers to decide whether they agree with what they read. They don’t need to be protected. They’re smart enough to make up their own minds.
Unified Patents has clearly been hired by the implementors to come after SEP licensing platforms. Somewhat disappointed to see IAM giving them any sort of voice. They’re just henchmen for the efficient infringement industry...
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To all IAM’s non-UK followers: please bear with us today, it looks like our country’s political leaders are having a collective breakdown.
To all IAM’s UK followers: anyone fancy a drink - or 12?
😱😱😱😱😱😱
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After the slurs, the settlement. Blackbird, pilloried as a troll, secures return for an inventor
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A new year's wish for the patent world: transparency - in institutions, in policy-making, in royalty rates, in ownership, in deals.
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US courts used to injunct infringing products so they could not be distributed or sold. They very rarely do anymore. That's not China's fault, that's entirely down to decsions made by US judges from SCOTUS down.
John Bolton suggested the White House could seek to bar any imports from China that employ stolen intellectual property from American businesses.
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IAM EXCLUSIVE - A
@The_IPO
spokesperson says the UK will not leave the EPO, despite plans to join the CPTPP and the apparent incompatibility in the grace period provisions between the two agreements
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Kappos on LeadershIP opening panel - "We have lost sight of the fact that innovation is really important and the guys who invest in innovation are the good guys"
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Patent rights that are not enforceable through the courts are pointless. Discuss.
“Intellectual property rights are our future, and it's no accident that in June of this year, the
@USPTO
will issue its 10 millionth patent.
#10MillionPatents
. There's no country in the history of the world that remotely approaches that.” -
@SecretaryRoss
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The notion that a company that has spent huge sums on R&D, that result in the creation of technologies that benefit hundreds of millions of people, is somehow a "bad player" for seeking a return on its investments is, quite frankly, ridiculous.
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Last night's attack took place in Borough Market, IAM's home. Our thoughts are with all who lost loved ones. The murderers will not win 🇬🇧
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Some of us rubbing our eyes watching patent owners being given the opportunity to give evidence in Congressional hearings. This has been very rare over recent years.
“We must promote a culture of creativity, risk taking and diversity—we simply cannot afford to miss out on those engineers and inventors in underrepresented groups.” -
@Qualcomm
’s
@SusieMArmstrong
testifying in front of
@HouseJudiciary
IP Subcommittee
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Details emerge of how ZTE has waged a "PR battle" against Vringo $VRNG
http://t.co/JKzcI46NUY
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In a bid to help defeat the Nazis, IP Hall of Fame inductee Hedy Lamarr developed and patented a secret communications system that would later serve as the basis for WiFi. But why did it take 20 years for her flash of genius to be recognised?
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Psst, Mr President, your Administration is currently in the process of suing the only US business currently holding a leadership position in 5G because you do not like its licensing strategy. This may not be the best way to encourage US companies!
I want 5G, and even 6G, technology in the United States as soon as possible. It is far more powerful, faster, and smarter than the current standard. American companies must step up their efforts, or get left behind. There is no reason that we should be lagging behind on.........
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Great story. Apple validates the NPE business model by buying, presumably, high quality patents from an NPE. Settlement or voluntary?
Apple just acquired a bunch of
#patents
that used to belong to Pantech - and it got them from an NPE.
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BIG NEWS - Ericsson confirms to IAM it has reached a global patent licensing agreement with Xiaomi. It's the second it has secured with a Chinese mobile business, having signed a deal with Oppo earlier this year.
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Intel puts wireless patents on the auction block in what looks set to become biggest sale since Rockstar $INTC
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Another day, another strong pro-patent piece in the mainstream US press. Slowly, but surely, a narrative is forming ...
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Germany tops the US for patent litigation in the annual IAM benchmarking survey; while the
@EPOorg
remains well ahead of the rest of the IP5.
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Here’s confirmation of that Intel news. Adds a lot of context to today’s $AAPL $QCOM announcement
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Sen Coons at Iancu hearing - "The legislative branch has an obligation to act on 101"
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Significant to see this piece in the Financial Times. Indicates the pro-patent lobby is getting its act together.
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Important point. Want to know what patent hold-out looks like? It looks like not paying billions in back royalties because you know there is no chance of an injunction being awarded against you. For deep pocket BigTech hold-out in the US is consequence-free. So why not do it?
@IAM_magazine
.This prime example of "hold out": company uses patented tech & refuses 2 pay license as strategy 2 impose destructive costs on patent owner. This is problem 4
#patent
sys &
#innovation
today w no injunctions & legal dmges artificially low. Who can afford $7 billion in arrears?
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SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch has taken unusual step of appointing two IP specialists as clerks
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In the US, momentum is building for legislative reform of the Section 101 patent eligibility rules.
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If you’re big enough, you get a free pass on infringing other people’s patents?
Apple infringes a patent owned by Qualcomm but its products shouldn’t be banned from the U.S., ITC judge says via
@technology
@ianmking
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The reality is that an SME’s chances of being sued by an NPE in Europe is around 0.000005%. Overall, NPEs account for less than 5% of patent lawsuits filed in Europe.
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Again, it’s worth remembering you cannot steal IP that does not exist. If your invention is not patented in China you are giving it away there, no-one is stealing it.
John Bolton suggested the White House could seek to bar any imports from China that employ stolen intellectual property from American businesses.
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* Qualcomm and Apple settle
* Hours later Apple supplier Intel confirms rumours that it’s pulling out of the 5G phone business
* Qualcomm now has all major mobile manufacturers under licence
* An existential threat is over
* 16th April 2019 was a red letter day for Qualcomm!
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Nokia's licensing team had a huge 2017 but the company is predicting much more to come $NOK
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Troll = company whose business model I don't like
Software patent = patent whose claims I don't like
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The German injunction decision today and the recent preliminary injunction award Qualcomm secured in China, combined with the seeming unavailability of such relief in the US, show why both jurisdictions are becoming so attractive to patent owners.
Qualcomm got an injunction in Germany against Apple today. It may be the spur to serious settlement talks between the two.
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Singapore gives AI-related patents the green light, promising examination and grant in just six months:
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That's a wrap from
#IPBCChina
here in Beijing. Thanks to all speakers and delegates for making it a very insightful day.
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Friedman - There's still so much of a gap between what finance knows about IP and what IP knows about the Street
#IPDF17
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Note to all media outlets writing about Huawei ownership of “key” 5G patents - just because a patent has been declared standards essential by its owner, that doesn’t make it standards essential.
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Note to editors: you can only own patents where you have been granted them. You can only get patent protection in China, or anywhere else for that matter, by applying for it. If you don't and someone works your invention, that's your fault, no-one else's.
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Pirate Party now has 40% support in Iceland according to the latest opinion poll.
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In her first interview since becoming Ericsson's new chief IP officer, Christina Petersson talks exclusively to IAM about the importance of listening to the market, the challenges of 5G licensing, her management style and diversity in IP deal-making.
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Major news - the DoJ, the USPTO and NIST back the availability of injunctive relief for SEP owners. But will the US courts? If they do, it’s a game changer. Big if, though.
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Huawei CEO: “Without innovation, there is no Qualcomm-type company. We should realise that IP protection is good for our nation’s long-term development, but it’s not a barrier that Western countries use to block us.”
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Congratulations to Singapore’s Daren Tang, nominated today to be the next Secretary General of WIPO. This will delight the US, which had been lobbying heavily against China’s Wang Binying. Tang must now be confirmed at a WIPO general assembly of all member states in May.
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Nokia is really upping its IP-related comms strategy. Absolutely the right thing to do. Others should take note. Patents are politics these days - and that means being out there making the case day in and day out.
We have established a relationship with
@Innventure1
to accelerate commercialization of disruptive Nokia
@BellLabs
#satellite
communications technology and intellectual property in areas beyond our core businesses.
#innovation
#IPR
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Important win for Ericsson today. The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds an EDTX jury ruling that licensing terms the Swedish company offered to HTC were FRAND. That's a major validation. There's only one place HTC can go from here. Would SCOTUS agree to hear a FRAND case?
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We are delighted to announce this year’s inductees into the IP Hall of Fame:
* Pioneering Asian IP lawyer Ella Cheong
* CAFC judge Richard Linn
* 3M chief IP counsel Kevin Rhodes
Congratulations to all three 👏👏🍾🍾🏅🏅
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Nokia wins again in Germany against Daimler and reveals "major" patent licence renewal
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Some fascinating details on Xiaomi's recent patent royalty payouts from the company's IPO filing
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These numbers will be very encouraging to a lot of patent owners...
PTAB’s Abstract Idea Reversal Rate Surges in January after New Examiner Guidance Takes Effect
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Huawei says it received patent royalty income totaling $600 million in 2021's first quarter, helping it stay profitable despite a big hit to revenues
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Any sale of the BlackBerry portfolio would be the biggest patent deal in years, but putting a value on the 38,000 assets it contains presents numerous challenges. This week's IAM Saturday Opinion comes from
@richardglloyd
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Michel - "We have totally upended the entire patent system in the last 4 years and unfortunately most legislators are living in the past where they think the problem is trolls, it's not"
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Perhaps
@EFF
could have a look at this controversial new Google patent. A candidate for Stupid Patent of the Month?
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Six companies dominate the 5G patent landscape, with over 40% of all filings. When comes to strongest patents they hold over 50% - Ed White,
@Derwent
#IPBCGlobal
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