‘Reasonable charges for innovation’ Huawei on charging patent royalties from 30 Japanese companies

Recently, the news of Huawei charging royalties from 30 Japanese companies went viral, now the tech maker has reacted to this matter and called it “reasonable charges for innovation”.

Huawei said that its core value is to provide customers with competitive products and services and to build a smart world with everything connected.

Reasonable charges are the result of innovation, not the end emphasized by Huawei. Huawei actively carries out-licensing activities to promote innovation, standardization, and intellectual property protection through active licensing.

An important goal of Huawei is to maintain a good innovation environment for the industry. The mutual recognition of the value of intellectual property rights among enterprises can promote the innovation positive cycle of “investment-return-reinvestment” in high-value standard technical research. It is to enhance the sustainable innovation capability of the industry, and provide consumers with more competitive products and Serve.

Huawei stated that Huawei will continue to protect innovative achievements and build high-value patent portfolios in the global market. It is to establish the legal sharing and use of patented technologies through cross-licensing or paid licensing under the principle of “fairness, reasonableness, and non-discrimination” to promote the popularization of technologies.

Royalties:

A past report revealed that Huawei was holding discussions with small and medium-sized Japanese companies for the use of its wireless communication modules.

The China-based vendor is reportedly seeking fees ranging from JPY0.50 ($0.36) or less per module to 0.1 percent or less of the price of the system.

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