Obtaining a patent for any invention, no matter how strange it may seem, costs very little money, but if the invention turns out to work, you can earn millions of euros from it. And now it seems that Huawei is going to claim a cut from Apple for using the 5G network on your devices.
Huawei has been developing telephone networks for many years, and has a large collection of patents on the 5G networkAnd now it seems that he is going to use these patents to "demand" large manufacturers like Apple or Samsung to pay to use "his patented inventions."
Bloomberg just published an interesting article where he explains that the telecommunications giant HuaweiIt intends to do business with several patents it has granted on 5G.
His idea is to take advantage of these patents to collect royalties from large companies such as Samsung or Apple for using such proprietary Huawei technology in its 5G devices.
Apple is already paying fees similar to Qualcomm for using wireless communication technologies in their devices. That's one of the reasons why Apple bought the entire 5G chip division a couple of years ago from Intel, to be able to manufacture its own modems and stop depending on Qualcomm.
But even by making its own 5G chips, Apple may not be able to avoid paying for these new ones. royalties to Huawei, since they may be due to patents of the 5G communication system itself, and those of Cupertino have no choice but to go through the tube.
That will mean that a small part of what we pay for a new Apple device that uses the data network 5G, will go to Huawei's coffers, without Apple being able to prevent it. Tomorrow I will invent something and take it to patent, to see if the flute sounds ...