PA Consulting: Nokia’s 5G patents ranked first

Recently, Nokia ranked first in the independent 5G patent research report of PA Consulting, an independent analysis company. The agency concluded in its “5G Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)” study released in April 2021 that Nokia’s patents are critical to 5G standards.

For more than 30 years, Nokia has been making significant contributions to the development of industry standards, maintaining a leading position in many aspects of the industry’s main standardization systems. In the 5G standardization process, Nokia is one of the most active contributors and drivers of key 5G standards.

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Several independent third-party studies have listed Nokia as one of the companies with the most patents and assessed that these patents are critical to mobile network standards including 5G.

Nokia invests over €4bn a year in R&D, filing patent applications on more than 1,300 new inventions this year, with a portfolio of around 20,000 patent families (each family being composed of several individual patents), including more than 3,500 patent families for 5G in 2020. Nokia’s technological innovation is committed to building open standards, and other companies can obtain Nokia’s authorization and use these technologies without having to invest heavily in research and development on their own.