Huawei’s patent portfolio dominance is its trump card in 5G race with US

A new study

A new study by research firms found that China’s Huawei owns the most patents on next-generation 5G technology, which means Washington will still have to pay royalties to the firm, despite President Trump’s efforts to shut it out.

According to the research, conducted by technology research firm GreyB Services in cooperation with analytics firm Amplified AI, six companies own more than 80 percent of all the inventions most closely connected to the 5G standards. Those companies are Huawei, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Nokia Oyj, Ericsson and Qualcomm, the only US-based firm in the group.

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