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Samsung and Qualcomm are leading in the patents related to the WiBro technology, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) (145) |
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2008-06-03 |
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1. Samsung and Qualcomm are leading in the patents related to the WiBro technology, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)
A mobile phone mainly used for voice communication has been changing to a portable combination unit which is capable of transmitting digital data for image communication and internet. The Republic of Korea (hereinafter, referred to as “Korea”) developed WiBro which is a wireless broadband internet technology for the first time in the world and commercialized it. The WiBro technology enables internet access by using a mobile device while moving at high speed.
To use the functions, such as image communication or internet, through a mobile terminal, mass digital data need to be transmitted at high speed. Accordingly, next-generation mobile communication and WiBro apply the OFDMA as the multiple access technology enabling a number of users to communicate simultaneously. It is also confirmed that, in the future, the OFDMA technology will be adopted in the international standards related to mobile communication.
Regarding the total number of OFDMA core technology-related patents registered with the USPTO during the period of 1999~2007, Samsung Electronics holds about 17% and Qualcomm holds about 14%. Therefore, the two companies have more than 30% of the OFDMA-related patents. Regarding the total number of OFDMA core technology-related patents registered with the KIPO during the same period, Samsung Electronics holds about 43%, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) holds about 20%, and Qualcomm holds about 5%.
Therefore, Korean companies are expected to make rapid advance in the next-generation mobile communication and mobile internet business. Specifically, as Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm secure a number of the patents related to the OFDMA core technology, these two companies are expected to greatly influence in using the patent rights in this field in the future.
Furthermore, in order for Korean companies to preoccupy and keep technical advantages in the next-generation mobile communication market, it is necessary to secure patent rights of the relevant technology and further to conclude a strategic cross license agreement with Qualcomm which is a competitor holding a number of the main and source patents of the international standards, based on the Korean companies’ patent rights.
2. Electronic device and optical device with nanotechnology
The interest in nanotechnology requiring a accuracy at the level of one billionth has been accelerating developments of electronic devices and optical devices in the semiconductor industry in addition to new materials or biotechnology.
Nanotechnology in the semiconductor industry is one of the technologies that is capable of providing diverse possibilities in fabricating the electronic device and the optical device of a nano-level by using nano-particles, array of nano-wires/thin films, and a combination of these materials.
According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO; Commissioner: Sangwoo JUN), patent applications in the fields of nano-particles and nano-wires/thin films classified by technologies steadily increased every year and remarkably increased in 2004.
Major applicants of the patent applications related to the electronic and optical devices based on nanotechnology are Samsung Electronics with 113 application cases (including 66 for nano-particles and 47 for nano-wires/thin films), ETRI with 56 (including 35 for nano-particles and 21 for nano-wires/thin films), Samsung SDI with 53 (including 10 for nano-particles and 43 for nano-wires/thin films) and others.
Applicants filing the most applications in the field of nano-particles file many applications related to the electronic device, and those filing the most applications in the field of nano-wires/thin films file many applications related to the optical device.
In the future, when research is continuously conducted for nano-particles, nano-wires/thin films and different-dimensional hybrid nano-materials based on the nano-particles and nano-wires/thin films in the fields of electronic and optical devices and when the relevant patent applications are filed, Korean companies are expected to take the initiative in the field of the semiconductor industry.
3. Korean digital music producing technology is toward international standards
The next-generation digital music technology, which was first developed and commercialized by Korea, is selected as an item to be driven for standardization in the meeting held by the international standards establishment organization. Therefore, the territory in the world market related to music is expected to change.
On May 22, 2008, Mr. Munkee CHOI, the president of ETRI, announced that the ‘Interactive Music Application Format’ was selected as the item to be driven for the international standardization in the 84th MPEG meeting held at the beginning of May in France. The ‘Interactive Music Application Format’ which is the next-generation digital music producing technology presented jointly with Audizen (CEO: Seungcheol HAHM) is in the process of standardization.
In the MPEG meeting, the ‘Interactive Music Application Format’ was selected as the item to be driven for the international standardization, unusually without any discussion or additional review of the relevant committees. Typically, since the items for standardization are directly related to national profits, they have been selected through many meetings, examinations and conferences.
In October 2007, ETRI developed the first digital music technology in the world. A user controls various music sources, such as vocal, piano, guitar, violin, drum and others, one by one. Therefore, the user can combine the sound of a singer and the sound of musical instruments as (s)he wants.
Last year, ETRI filed three international patent applications and six Korean patent applications related to the digital music technology. This year, ETRI plans to file four Korean and international patent applications.
4. The Japanese Patent Office (JPO) will finish examination of Bio-Technology (BT) and Nano-Technology (NT) patent applications within one month
According to the Nihon KeiZai Newspaper dated May 5, 2008, JPO will introduce the ‘super-earlier examination system’ to shorten the time required for examination of the patent applications in the high-tech fields. This system will shorten the time for examination to two to four weeks, to improve the national competitiveness.
The ‘super-earlier examination system’ is newly established in the fields of the BT and NT and will be applied on a trial basis from October this year. Accordingly, the patent examination period is shortened by one to two months, compared to the current earlier examination system.
JPO plans to include the bill of establishing the aforementioned system through the ‘Research Society for Innovation and Intellectual Property Policy” with the head being Mr. Nomaguchiyu, the president of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.
According to a spokesman of JPO, the competition to obtain patents for high technologies has been intensified by companies and research organizations, and therefore, when the period required for patent examination is shortened, the international competitiveness in the fields of BT and NT will be further increased.
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