The 3G4G Blog

IPR, Licensing and royalties are always an interesting topic. In the end they decide what price a device would be sold at. If I put it s...

More than 23,500 patents have been declared essential to the GSM & 3G as shown in the picture above. I am assuming this includes 4G ...

Codecs play an important role in our smartphones. Not only are they necessary and must for encoding/decoding the voice packets but they inc...

Continuing from the earlier post on the Patent Wars , here is a chart on who is suing whom. Via: ReadWrite Mobile & Reuters

Patent wars has picked up force in the recent few months. Last week the Samsung Galaxy S2 Android phone was banned from the EU due to a sui...

Page 5-8 is a very good starting point to understand the IPR issues surrounding LTE. The Essentials of Intellectual Property - Sep 2010 View...

One of the things I wanted to blog from the LTE World Summit was the new Patent Pool by Sisvel . In past I have blogged about the patent p...

The other day I heard from Alex GeunHo Lee about his new blog related to 4G technologies IPR. Alex has got extensive experience in IPR and...

Markus Münkler, Vodafone Group R&D spoke about IPR Regime for LTE @ LTE World Summit, Berlin Progress since 2005 •ETSI has improved visi...

Via Licensing Corp . is looking to administer a patent pool for companies and research institutes claiming to have Intellectual Property for...

LG recently announced that it has independently developed the first handset (user equipment) modem chip based on 3GPP Long Term Evolution (...