| | | A lot of what Huawei "contributed to 5G" were extensions which are only used in their particular 5g. All this will does is discourage other makers from using Huawei's "standards" and adopt the standards licensed, often free of charge, by others.
But there are Huawei contributions to 5G. This is an arcane example of a "big win" for Huawei . . .
5G uses a coding scheme called LDPC (low density parity check) for the data and control signal. Huawei proposed a uselessly different Polar Coding, but to make China feel part of the club, the 3GPP standards group proposed using Huawei's Polar coding for the control channel.
If Huawei becomes a pest or patent troll, - ( (ha,ha, ha, all your base are belong to us) ) - the 3GPP decision can be easily reversed to use LDPC coding for the control channel as well as the data channel. Huawei's Polar coding provides no discernible benefit, it was included in the 5G standard as a kindness to encourage China's participation.
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There's a much larger pile of garbage distorting all Chinese patent statistics. The emperor of China ordered a Great Leap Forward in Patent Filings and the Party apparatchiks complied with a deluge of nonsense patents. Those working in the field expect less than 4% to proceed to actual patents. The estimate used to be higher and probably continue down to an even smaller percentage than 4%.
This all seems to be relatively new to those in China so they don't recognize their work as a costly waste of time and international search and legal fees.
The bar to most nonsense patents is they must be novel, not obvious and not state of the art. And more to the point, it can't infringe on prior patents.
There's an immense amount of "state of the art ways of doing things" in every industry which no patent troll has ever bothered to patent because filing fees and prior state of the art search would bar issuing the patent.
As more than 96% of China's patents get rejected, in time Party basses will become more judicious with the use of their time.
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The bar is much lower for largely useless "Design Patents" which cover the non-functional design aspects you create. A huge percentage of Chinese patents are "Design Patents" which are not worth filing unless you have an iconic design in the market place.
Design patents only protect you from "absolutely identical designs", as Tata's Land Rover discovered when they sued the Chinese company LandWind for producing an identical copy of their piece of shit Range Rover Evoque. LandWind had to remove 14 design parts, yet LandWind owners can still pay after-market companies which will rebadge their LandWind as a "Range Rover Evoque" complete with the Range Rover insignias.
Copyrights for design features provides broader protect against similar designs, but China has filed few of those because in the logic of the communist system, the Emperor asked for an increase in Patent filings without mentioning copyrights.
Is this a Range Rover Evoque or a Chinese LandWind X7 with fake Range Rover logos ?
It doesn't really matter as they're both a piece of shit.
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