Patent fees cannot be charged for the sake of charging

Huawei has been ramping up its basic R&D efforts. "The more difficult it is, the more we need to focus on innovation." According to Huawei's financial report, its R&D expenditure in 2021 was 142.7 billion yuan, the highest in its history, accounting for about 22% of its annual revenue, and ranking second in the European Union's industrial R&D investment list in the world.

Research and development 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 Voice Community published the meeting minutes of the Patent Licensing Business Report (hereinafter referred to as the "Minutes") issued by Ren Zhengfei. The minutes point out that intellectual property strategies should be developed with The Times to serve the company's commercial success; Actively explore the technology secret licensing mode and industrial promotion mechanism.

The minutes mentioned that a reasonable price benchmark should be established to allow the industry to use Huawei's patented technologies fairly and reasonably, obtain proper R&D returns and establish Huawei's image as an innovator in the international community.

Huawei's intellectual property department stressed that patent fees should not be charged for the sake of charging fees; If it is too low, it will curb the innovation of the whole society, and no one will be willing to invest in research and development. It will form a monopoly of facts, and it does not conform to the principle of fairness, rationality, and non-discrimination required by the law.

"At the same time, we should be prepared to play a 'long game'. We do not seek quick victory, nor fear defeat. But charging is not the end goal. The most important thing is that we clarify the relationship through communication and negotiation." The text mentioned.

It is understood that over the past 20 years, Huawei has carried out innovation around ICT standards, and has formed high-value technologies and related patent packages such as 5G, WIFI, audio, and Video Coding and decoding worldwide. At the same time, Huawei is also predeveloping next-generation standard technologies such as 6G, WIFI7, and AI Video Coding. And pre-research such as star flash short-range communication technology, UWA ultra high definition video technology, and other new standard technology.