ZTE: The communications giant ranks among the first echelons of global patent layout, with patent value exceeding 45 billion

With the steady advancement of the "14th Five-Year Plan", our country is currently further deepening the reform in the field of intellectual property and accelerating the construction of an intellectual property power.

Recently, relevant departments have also stated that they will speed up key technology research, strengthen the top-level design of manufacturing intellectual property rights, and conduct patent analysis, early warning and layout research around key manufacturing areas such as new energy and intelligent connected vehicles.

This news will undoubtedly bring double benefits to companies in the industry that hold core patented technologies, both in terms of financial policy and innovation incentives.

Thanks to the accumulation of time and effort, the patent value of communications giant ZTE has exceeded 45 billion

As a major contributor to the global 5G standard, ZTE is continuously creating value for customers through high-quality patent accumulation. Become a “digital economy road builder”.

As of March 2021, ZTE has more than 80,000 global patent applications, and has accumulated more than 40,000 authorized patents globally over the years. The value of related patented technologies has exceeded RMB 45 billion. Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), a world-renowned investment management company, also pointed out in the report that ZTE has become a major participant and setter of global 5G standards, and the company's global patent layout ranks in the first echelon. In addition, according to the "Leaders in the 5G Patent Competition" report released by the internationally renowned patent data company IPLytics in February 2021, ZTE ranks third in the world in terms of the number of 5G standard essential patent declarations disclosed to ETSI.

Long before the relevant departments expressed their stance, ZTE had been actively exploring how to further tap and leverage the value of intangible assets. In addition to reaching patent cross-licensing with mainstream companies in the communications industry to promote the radiation of communications industry technology to vertical industries, it will also recover reasonable R&D investments through transfers, licensing and other operations to build a sustainable development closed loop of innovation, operation, and re-innovation.

In the past few years, ZTE’s intellectual property revenue has grown steadily, which has brought cash benefits to the company and will continue to create promising benefits. It is expected that during the five-year period from 2021 to 2025, the intellectual property revenue will Bringing revenue of 4.5-6 billion yuan to the company.

In addition to the three traditional businesses, ZTE is also actively developing patents in new fields.

As the best practitioner of global innovation and intellectual property commercial value, ZTE has always insisted on integrating intellectual property rights into As the core strategy of enterprise development.

In addition to continuing to expand in the three traditional businesses of operators, government and enterprises, and consumers, we have also made patent arrangements in new fields in recent years, such as seizing the wave of vehicle electrification, in the fields of automotive electronics and other fields. Also laid out.

Before the relevant departments proposed to carry out patent analysis for key manufacturing areas such as new energy and intelligent connected vehicles, ZTE had already entered the new energy vehicle industry and carried out patent layout internally.

It is understood that ZTE has been conducting V2X/D2D (vehicle) research and related patent deployment since 2011. It has continued to promote the improvement of related solutions for ten years, and has a large number of patent applications and a certain number of global authorizations. patent. Nowadays, with the advancement of favorable industrial policies, ZTE, which holds a large number of patents, is even more exciting.

From a practical point of view, ZTE is the enterprise technological innovation required in the "14th Five-Year Plan" and builds core competitive advantages from the standard patent level; from a possible point of view, with more knowledge With the advancement of property rights policies, ZTE, as a high-quality leader in the strategy of strengthening the country through intellectual property rights, has a promising future.