This paper summarizes the results and methodology of a 5G essentiality survey that estimates the total number of patent families (excluding Ericsson, which funded this study) that have a patent with at least one claim that is essential to the 5G consumer mobile smartphone as of January 2020. In...

This paper summarizes the results and methodology of a 5G essentiality survey that estimates the total number of patent families (excluding Ericsson, which funded this study) that have a patent with at least one claim which is essential to the 5G consumer mobile smartphone as of January 2020. In...

Companies develop open standards at their own expense and make them public, so that anyone can build products that use them. This at first sight seems economically unsustainable: how can some companies afford to contribute time and effort into developing standards for public use, when...