Nokia Levy Patent fee: domestic manufacturers to sea dilemma

Under the Nokia patent stick, HTC has bowed its head and pledged to pay Nokia cash for patent authorization. But for other domestic brands of mobile phone manufacturers, is not a good news. A number of mobile phone manufacturers and the author of the recent chat, has revealed to Nokia in the future transformation of patent companies worry.　　Nokia, Microsoft, Ericsson, Qualcomm and other companies under the big stick, domestic mobile phones each export a smartphone, it faces the payment of more than 10% of the licensing costs, much higher than the company's own profits. Domestic mobile phone manufacturers to speed up the sea in 2014 was seen as the key to the domestic mobile phone manufacturers to go to sea a crucial year, and ten years ago that round to the GSM function machine mainly to sea, the main Indian Africa and other emerging markets. In the smartphone market, the rapid rise of the Chinese Cool Alliance have invested heavily in their own brands to the European and American International Line of the scale of the market. A handset maker boss told the author that China has become the world's largest smartphone manufacturers, the most competitive, but also the lowest profit of the major regional markets. According to IDC data, Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Cool, TCL and so on more and more Chinese manufacturers have entered the top 10 of global shipments. In the domestic market gradually saturated, the profit pressure and to the high-end brand target, the domestic brand manufacturers have increased the overseas layout for more than 2014 years.　　Lenovo even funded 2.9 billion of billions of dollars to acquire Motorola Mobility to officially open up overseas markets. Nokia Levy mobile phone patent fee: Stick at any time. However, the person also said that in the past, Huawei, ZTE Mobile phones to expand the developed markets in Europe and the United States, each 3g/4g Android phones to Microsoft, Qualcomm and other fees to pay royalties. But the situation is intensifying after Microsoft's takeover of Nokia and the global mobile phone industry into the 4G pattern. Microsoft's takeover of the Nokia case does not include patents for Nokia. Nokia, which retains its patent, is no longer making phone production, and the practice of cross licensing in the industry will not apply to Nokia in the future, so Nokia is seeking to maximise its patent benefits. Nokia spokesman Mark Durante said before: "When the handset business is stripped off, we will try to license the technology outside." At present, Nokia has 16,000 communications patents in the United States, and in the United States also has about 4,500 pending telecommunications patents, in Europe and pending patents total of up to 20,000. More importantly, Nokia holds a 19%-percent patent for 4G LTE, far exceeding the second-highest Qualcomm 12.5%. That is to say, any handset manufacturer makes 4G handset to have already bypassed Nokia. At the same time, Microsoft has more than 34000 patents around the world for mobile software and hardware, and Google's Android system itself is free of open source, but large Android handset makers must also pay patent fees to Microsoft rather than Google. With Microsoft's takeover of Nokia, the industry expects it will soon launch a new patent strategy that would push Android companies to expand revenues and sell mobile phone companies a market share of only 3% of Windows Phone Systems。 The patent licensing fee is much higher than that of domestic manufacturers, and the company is also planning to impose LTE royalties on 4G handsets sold in Europe and the US. A domestic brand of mobile phone manufacturers vice-president complained to the author, in the domestic market profit is lower and higher, and to the international market is also facing the same situation, and at any time because of the ban on patent issues. Specifically, if a domestic smart phone price of 150 U.S. dollars, currently to pay the patent costs include: 1, Qualcomm in accordance with mobile phone prices charged 4%-5%;2, Ericsson in accordance with mobile phone prices charged 3%;3, Nokia according to the mobile phone price charged 2%-3%;4, Microsoft to each Android phone 5 U.S. dollars, Tablet computers charge a licence fee for 10 dollars.　　In other words, domestic mobile phone each mobile phone is facing more than 10% of the high cost of patent payment, far higher than the 3G era, but also higher than domestic mobile phone manufacturers of the current independent profit margin. The regulator needs a key period to help. Industry analysts believe that the world's leading mobile phone manufacturing industry is concentrated in China, while China is the world's largest smartphone consumer market. However, domestic mobile phone lack of technology and patent accumulation, in the core parts, system software is not the right to speak, domestic mobile phone companies need the relevant national management department in the critical period to help a ride. If the EU had warned Nokia not to become a patent speculator, it would start an antitrust investigation. In the antitrust investigation of Qualcomm, the South Korean government issued a fine of 273 billion won (about 252 million US dollars) in 2009. The NDRC's antitrust investigation also needs to be intensified, extending to Nokia and other patent companies, urging its patent fees to fall within reasonable limits. Wang Yanhui, secretary general of China's mobile phone, said: "The bad thinking, may happen to the DVD industry this result." Some Chinese companies may earn a few dollars for producing DVDs, but overseas patent owners will earn a lot of dollars. As a result, China's entire industry has been completely reduced to manufacturing. A number of mobile phone manufacturers have also called on the boss to set up professional trade associations, through the establishment of a patent pool to jointly deal with international patent issues, while coordinating domestic manufacturers to reduce patent wars, price wars, and maintain the common interests of Chinese mobile phone companies and image.