The W-CDMA Patent Licensing Programme: 3G W-CDMA Certified Essential Patents (June 2006)
Within the W-CDMA Patent Licensing Programme (W-CDMA PLP) administered by 3G Licensing there is a two-stage process for certifying a patent as essential.
Initially, a patent is evaluated by an Evaluation Panel (comprising a Lead Evaluator and two Assistant Evaluators; all three are patent attorneys) established by an independent International Patent Evaluation Consortium (IPEC), currently grouping together fourteen patent law firms in Asia (China, Japan and Korea), Australia, Europe (France, Germany, Italy and UK) and the United States. IPEC declares that the patent is essential based on an agreed Evaluation Process.
The second stage is to subject the IPEC declared essential patent to an" "objection process" by the licensors. Following a successful outcome of the "objection process" the patent is certified as essential. The certified W-CDMA Essential Patents are then integrated into the W-CDMA Patent Licensing Programme.
Nine (9) major companies have joined the program to date, covering all components of the 3GPP standards from Release 3 (R'99) and beyond: Koreas's ETRI, Fujitsu, KPN, Mitsubishi, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, NTT, Sharp and Siemens Their patents certified by IPEC are below ...
• W-CDMA Essential Patents for W-CDMA Terminals Products
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• W-CDMA Essential Patents for all W-CDMA Product Categories
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>> The Joint License Agreement for Terminals (JLA) captures in excess of 35% of the 2005 W-CDMA handset market worldwide
3G Licensing
Stamford, UK
1 February 2006
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Today, 3G Licensing, the licensing administrator of the W-CDMA Patent Licensing Programme,
was pleased to announce that in 2005 the W-CDMA Patent Licensing Programme had under
license more than 35% of the world market for W-CDMA terminal products with a per-unit JLA
royalty of US $ 2.00.
This represented around 16 million licensed terminals in a world market of about 43.7 million
terminals (according to Strategy Analytics). Given that the W-CDMA terminal market worldwide is forecasted to grow from 44 million units in 2005 to more than 400 million units in 2010 this represents a substantial potential addressable market for the the W-CDMA Patent Licensing Programme.
All parties that make, use, lease, sell and otherwise dispose of or transfer terminals that claim to conform to the W-CDMA FDD standards including ODM, OEM and EMS manufacturers (that is, the actual manufacture of the terminal) must take either a JLA or an individual license from each patent holder under the W-CDMA Patent Licensing Programme. <<
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