No corporations would enter an agreement that is pro-competition, doesn’t make sense. That’s where government needs to step up and provide some value
replyIt's a hard area for the government to navigate because IP is designed to confer monopoly power. As long as Qualcomm walks a careful line on licensing costs/behaviour, they probably think the risk of being the target of antitrust sanctions is limited or manageable.
replyConsumers will likely pay incrementally higher prices though.
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replyYou are the government. How are you planning to step up?
replyI will continue to vote, go to every protest I can that I think is for the right cause, and yell desperately on the internet.
replyIf there’s more I can be doing as a good little citizen let me know. The power of the people feels like it’s at an all time low, government is overrun with money, corruption and authoritarians
Protests never accomplish law changes - the most they can do is bring together the people who care enough about something to protest it.
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replyAsking Gemini it seems their patents covers about 25% of the number of applicable patents, behind them is Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia.
replyNo breakdown on the age of the patents though so it'd be interesting to see how things evolve over the years.
AFAIK, a lot of the Ericsson and Nokia patents are legacy. Companies still need to license them, but they're not targeted at the latest generation of 5G polar codes, MIMO OFDM implementations, etc. Not sure about Samsung.
replyQualcomm does more than 5 billion a year in patent licensing revenue. It's a licensing behemoth.
I think Nokia would probably disagree. I'd guess a large part of their $6B research budget goes on 5g and 6g related tech.
reply> Nokia reaches 7,000 patent families declared as essential to 5G
https://www.nokia.com/newsroom/nokia-reaches-7000-patent-fam...