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whizzter • today at 9:36 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Asking Gemini it seems their patents covers about 25% of the number of applicable patents, behind them is Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia.

No breakdown on the age of the patents though so it'd be interesting to see how things evolve over the years.


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AlanYx • today at 9:40 AM

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.

Qualcomm does more than 5 billion a year in patent licensing revenue. It's a licensing behemoth.

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