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huawei: 40 new patent licensing agreements were signed in the past year, and 22 fortune 500 companies became huawei licensees

2024-09-06

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it home reported on september 6 that huawei held its fifth innovation and intellectual property forum today. at the meeting, huawei's chief legal officer song liuping said: "in the next ten to twenty years, huawei will accelerate its move towards a fully connected intelligent society. communications and computing are the two most important cornerstones of the future world. no matter how the external environment changes, it will not change huawei's determination and confidence in openness, cooperation, and innovation."

it is reported that huawei disclosed 36,000 new patents in 2023, exceeding all years in history.by the end of 2023, huawei has published more than 336,000 patents, contributed more than 130,000 technical proposals to domestic and international standard organizations, and published more than 6,000 academic papers. the open source code submitted by openharmony community co-builders has exceeded 110 million lines.

fan zhiyong, huawei's vice president and director of the intellectual property department, believes that intellectual property licensing plays an important role in promoting technological openness. for example, licensing revenue can lead innovators to contribute their inventions to open technology standards. he revealed at the forum: "in the past year, huawei has signed 40 new patent licensing agreements. currently, 22 fortune 500 companies have become huawei's licensees."

according to previous reports by it home, the latest statistics released by the world intellectual property organization show thatchina’s huawei technologies co ltd, south korea’s samsung electronics co ltd and the united states’ qualcomm incorporated are the world’s leading users of wipo’s international patent system in 2023.

huawei technologies co., ltd. ranked first in the world in pct (patent cooperation treaty of the world intellectual property organization) applications in 2023, with 6,494 pct applications published in 2023, ranking first in the international patent applicant ranking for seven consecutive years from 2017 to 2023.