Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)

2024.10.14 Jackson Lin

Background During the setting of cellular standards in Release 19, the work item NR Mobility Enhancements Phase 4 (NR_Mob_Ph4; refer to RP-241515 for the detailed scope of the WI) aims to address limitations introduced in Rel-18 by expanding LTM capabilities, supporting inter-CU operations, and enhancing L1 measurement capabilities. These enhancements ensure smoother mobility and efficient measurement handling in NR systems. In agenda item 9.9.1 - Measurements Related Enhancements for LTM (Layer 1/Layer 2 Triggered Mobility) at the previous RAN1#118 meeting, several important agreements were reached in R1-2407445, including: Support for L1-RSRP measurement based on CSI-RS, providing a more robust framework...

2024.08.16 Jackson Lin

Introduction As the digital landscape evolves, the importance of setting robust and sustainable standards for Ambient IoT (A-IoT) within NR cannot be overstated. The FS_Ambient_IoT_Solutions work item is at the forefront of this endeavor, aiming to develop a new 3GPP IoT technology that is ultra-low in complexity and power consumption, yet capable of supporting the vast scale of future IoT applications. The Road to Standards At the upcoming RAN2#127 meeting, agenda item 8.2.3—A-IoT Paging—will be a central focus. Across 34 distinct TDocs, contributed by 32 different sources, 233 proposals aim to define how IoT devices will operate in real-world environments....

2020.08.11 Patrick Liu

According to reports, the four-year ConVex1 C-V2X (Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything) trial—which the German government invested in—successfully ended last month. Swarco—a leading provider of traffic solutions that participated in the trial—concluded that C-V2X would be added to traffic infrastructure product portfolios based on the trial results. Additionally, last month, Qualcomm, the world’s communications leader, and San Diego Regional Proving Ground (SDRPG) announced the launch of C-V2X direct communication program2 in California, which uses 5.9GHz LTE direct communication technology to provide vehicle communication tests and case studies on real roads.   C-V2X is a connected-vehicle technology that combines wide-area cellular networks and direct communication. Specifically,...

2020.08.03 Daniel Kuo

According to BusinessWire, Versatile Video Coding (VVC) became a standard on July 6, 2020, and will be published as an ITU-T Recommendation H.266 by the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector ITU-T. On July 22, 2020, the Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF) issued meeting invitations to the companies owning patents or patent applications, which are potential standard-essential patents (SEPs) for fostering the formation of a single VVC patent pool. According to the release from MC-IF, they wish to avoid a repetition of the fragmentation found today in the patent licensing market for the previous standard—High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). The fragmentation caused by...

2020.07.10 Alvyn Lin

Chaotic Traffic vs. Self-Driving Testing, what do you think? According to recent reports, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced the “Automated Vehicles Transparency and Engagement for Safe Testing Initiative (AV Testing Initiative)”. This initiative serves to provide an “online platform for sharing self-driving system road test activities” to raise public awareness about self-driving cars. The public can use this platform to understand the test activities of self-driving cars, such as test data including time, location, frequency, number of vehicles, and routes, etc. Currently, there are nine self-driving companies and eight state governments that are participating in the...

2020.06.25 Jean Chou

Tesla vs. Nikola? Lithium Batteries vs. Fuel Cells? WISPRO Manager Jean Chou: Both Have Their Advantages, Market Segmentation Is the Key to the Success of Electric Vehicles [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="750"] Photo credit: Nikola Corp.[/caption] Tesla and Nikola are two electric vehicle companies, one focuses on lithium battery vehicles, and the other focuses on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Although they are both named after Nikola Tesla⁠—the inventor of the AC system⁠—these two companies never seem to be able to get along with each other. Not long after Nikola went public, Tesla’s founder Elon Musk popped up and told everyone again...

2020.06.18 Eugene Lu

WIPO Offers Latest Digital Time-Stamping Service for Intellectual Property Related Documents Have you ever searched high and low for decisive, non-patent literature, valuable for invalidating a patent plaintiff’s claim, only to be challenged with the effective publication date of the prior art in court?  Has the effective date of your R&D laboratory notes been contested by your opposition in an interference/ derivation proceeding that fights for prior inventorship? While the scenarios mentioned above may seem remote to many of us, in this generation of the digital age, lots of valuable intellectual assets are produced in the form of digital files....

2020.06.16 Patrick Liu

China’s Zero-Emission Business Opportunities [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="750"] Photo credit: Toyota[/caption] The carbon footprint has always played an essential role in global environmental protection issues. In recent years, the rapid growth of the electric vehicle field has also reflected the automotive industry’s determination to keep up with the world’s environmental protection trends. However, regarding zero-emission, in addition to electric vehicles that only consume electricity and not oil, the market has another option: fuel cells that use alternative energy. According to reports, Toyota—which is the leading global automotive company—and five other Chinese automotive companies (BAIC, GAC, FAW, Dongfeng, and SinoHytec), recently set up a joint venture called United Fuel...