Keith Mallinson

Industry analyst, commercial consultant and testifying expert with 25 years in ICT focusing on strategic issues in mobile comm's including innovation and IPR

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Measuring value and royalty costs in standards and SEPs passed along the value chain to consumers

Here's a fuller response to a question about “transparency” I was asked at the Patents in Telecoms and the Internet of Things conference in London recently.

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Stellar data traffic growth forecast to persist with 5G and FWA until at least 2028

The prediction I made in May 2011 — for 1,000-fold cellular data traffic growth over 15 years to 2025 — will most probably turn out correct. I was not the first to antici…https://t.co/U3d1wIlZBb

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European Commission is recklessly replacing established and effective FRAND valuation and licensing practices with dubious top-down rate setting

I've focused my feedback--to the EC consultation on proposed SEP regulation that's ru…https://t.co/Bci7VtMvWR https://t.co/V8TNkPH46r

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Where AI Works Well and Where it Doesn’t in Predicting Standard Essentiality for Patents

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is providing enormous productivity and increased value in many applications. Introduction of the chatbot ChatGPT…https://t.co/nu9D4JVPS6 https://t.co/h9kxv4HHoR

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Prioritising quantity over quality can be found in many places, as I have also observed in the behaviour of some companies declaring patents to be essential to standards such as 5G. As explained by Goodhart's Law, "When a measure becomes a target, it cea…https://t.co/6uajJN08EW

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Gaming the System: A Scatter-Gun Approach to 5G Declarations

While it is already widely understood that “over-declaration” of standard essentiality is due to large and excessive numbers of patents being filed in patent offices and…https://t.co/NW2AfXlcgY https://t.co/9pbRomvzBx

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Revenue boost for automotive industry from cellular connectivity outweighs SEP licensing costs

The automotive industry is being revolutionized by continuous cloud connectivity, autonomous driving technologies, drive train electrif…https://t.co/CHLUB7oCrs https://t.co/MToXnxYB8L

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It was indeed a great pleasure to participate in this panel and in the conference generally with so many informative experts. It was great to me in person again.

In response to some requests from conference attendees asking for my panel session talking p…https://t.co/XaQyx050J6

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The EU is in grave danger of “throwing out the baby with the bathwater” in its prospective attempts to reform SEP licensing with interventions for the purported benefit of European Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in IoT. …https://t.co/c2adD5reCs https://t.co/qTu7e0otKF

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Global standard setting at 3GPP endangered with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. #3gpp #5G https://t.co/AXe01BIXFt

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I'm looking forward to speaking again in person and meeting colleagues at the next Patents in Telecoms and the Internet of Things conference, in London on 26-27 May 2022.

#internetofthings #FRAND #SEP #patentlicensing https://t.co/hdda0hjsIN

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Nvidia's proposed acquisition of ARM has been scrapped:
I always felt the combination would bring harmful dominance in 5G computing: https://t.co/Uk3JZw7eEd
As ARM now instead pursues an IPO, its new CEO Rene Haas needs to step up…https://t.co/UbAcdHt11a https://t.co/WxbgtVC7Pb

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Join me and colleagues to find out how the pandemic, geopolitical tensions, economic growth and changes in demand are disrupting the semiconductor supply chain in 5G and IoT. Where are the shortages, who has secured supply and what…https://t.co/8IPzcPdbqM https://t.co/2HkG258i0S

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Sharp - not weak or late enforcement is required against recalcitrant SEP implementers.
It's vital the fundamental sanction in patent law—of the temporary right to exclude—along with other remedies, including enhanced damages, ar…https://t.co/iZ1jRHMbrJ https://t.co/okNYfih4Fy

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Royalty pricing dichotomy in patent pool for Open RAN Radio Units. MPEG LA and Unified Patents have just l seeks to license 4G LTE and 5G standard-essential patents (SEPs) for a minimum charge of $10 per Open RAN Radio Unit (RU).
https://t.co/0AO8JxsQws

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Shortcomings in institutionalising use of patent counting in top-down FRAND-royalty rate setting: https://t.co/pP8KxSadBl

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Modest SEP royalties on smartphones have declined and licensing is stabilizing. This defies purported concerns that stacking of patent royalties paid to multiple licensors led to or would lead to unreasonably high aggregate rates on mobile devices.
https://t.co/D0m0iKuQYa

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Let's not neglect the opportunities for openness and competition in RAN hardware as well as software. Developments so far are largely about virtualization and O-RAN software, with that running on monolithic “industry standard” hardware: https://t.co/TB0UMIGX0F

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It's simplistic and short-sighted for President Biden to advocate undermining Covid-19 patent rights
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While there are major UK national interest concerns about SoftBank’s proposed sale of Arm to NVIDIA, the threat and likelihood of severe anticompetitive effects of this transaction are global and more fundamental. https://t.co/grw5Ahfi8z