As one of the companies with the largest number of 5G patents, patent licensing will also become an important source of revenue for Huawei.

As one of the companies with the largest number of 5G patents, patent licensing will also become an important source of revenue for Huawei.

In fact, Huawei's cooperation in charging for 5G patents this time is not only OPPO, but also Samsung, the world's largest mobile phone brand.The latter has also achieved 5G patent licensing with Huawei, which is much larger than OPPO's, but both sides have kept a low profile and the details have not been released.

As early as March 2021, Huawei announced the 5G fee standard. Ding Jianxin, head of Huawei's intellectual property department, said that Huawei would follow the principle of FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory).A patent license fee of up to $2.50 is charged for each 5G multimode phone.

According to Huawei, Huawei's intellectual property revenue from 2015 to 2020 was $1.4 billion. It accounted for 1% of total revenue in 2019 and 2020, but Zhonghua mentioned a patent license fee of US $600 million in the Q1 quarter of 2021.

According to Huawei's White Paper on Innovation and intellectual property 2020, continued investment in innovation has made Huawei one of the largest patent holders in the world. By the end of 2020, Huawei held more than 40, 000 valid authorized patents (more than 100000), of which more than 90% were invention patents.

German patent data company IPlytics released a fact-finding report on & ldquo;5G standard patent claims & rdquo; report. As of January 1, 2020, there were 21571 5G standard patent claims in the world, of which Huawei ranked first with 3147, followed by Samsung (2795), ZTE (2561), LG Electronics (2300), Nokia (2149) and Ericsson (1494).