Islamabad
\nHuawei announced a batch of key inventions as part of its biennial \u201cTop Ten Inventions\u201d Awards at the \u201cBroadening the Innovation Landscape 2022\u201d forum held at its Shenzhen headquarters.
\nThe award is designed to recognize inventions that could create new series of products, become important commercial features of existing products, or that generate considerable value for the company and the industry.
\nThe awarded inventions range from an adder neural network that significantly reduces power consumption and circuit area to a game-changing \u201coptical iris\u201d that provides a unique identifier for optical fibers. It is designed to help carriers manage their network resources, cutting time and costs associated with broadband deployment.
\nThe announcement came in the context of intellectual property rights, the protection and sharing of which Huawei believes is critical to the tech ecosystem.
\n\u201cProtecting IP is key to protecting innovation,\u201d said Huawei\u2019s Chief Legal Officer, Song Liuping. \u201cWe are eager to license our patents and technologies to share our innovations with the world. This will help broaden the innovation landscape, drive our industry forward, and advance technology for everyone,\u201d he added.
\n\u201cHuawei is constantly changing itself, and constantly showcasing to the world the value of IP from China,\u201d said Tian Lipu, President of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property\u2019s China Chapter.
\nBy the end of 2021, Huawei held more than 110,000 active patents across over 45,000 patent families. It has more granted patents than any other Chinese company, has filed the most patent applications with the EU Patent Office, and ranked fifth in terms of new patents granted in the United States. For five straight years, Huawei has ranked No. 1 worldwide in terms of Patent Cooperation Treaty applications.
\nAlan Fan, Head of Huawei\u2019s IPR Department, said the value of Huawei patents has seen wide recognition in the industry, especially in mainstream standards such as cellular technology, Wi-Fi, and audio\/video codecs.
\n\u201cIn the past five years, more than two billion smartphones have been licensed to Huawei\u2019s 4G\/5G patents. And for cars, about eight million connected vehicles licensed to Huawei patents are being delivered to the consumers every year,\u201d Fan said.
\nHuawei is also working actively with patent license administration companies in offering \u201cone-stop\u201d licenses for mainstream standards.
\n\u201cOver 260 companies\u2014accounting for one billion devices\u2014have obtained Huawei\u2019s HEVC patent licenses through a patent pool,\u201d Fan said. He added that the company is in discussions to establish a new patent pool to give the industry \u201cquick access\u201d to Huawei\u2019s patents for Wi-Fi devices worldwide.
\nHuawei is also discussing joint licensing programs for 5G patents with licensing experts and other leading industry patentees.
\nLiu Hua, Director of World Intellectual Property Organization Office in China, praised Huawei\u2019s sustained focus on innovation, saying: \u201cWe look forward to seeing Huawei continue to take part in high-level global competition with innovation at its core.\u201d
\nFor Manuel Desantes, former Vice President of European Patent Office, given the vast number of changes in the world these days, what matters most is no longer the number of registered patents or inventions. \u201cThe IP system should assure that the creations that merit protection are those that bring actual value,\u201d he said.
\nThis marked the third innovation and IP-themed event Huawei has hosted on its innovation practices. Every year, Huawei invests over 10% of its sales revenue into R&D.
\nIn terms of R&D expenditure, Huawei ranked second in the 2021 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. In 2021, the company increased its R&D investment to CNY142.7 billion, representing 22.4% of our total revenue. Over the past decade, Huawei\u2019s total R&D investment surpassed CNY845 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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