Who is leading 5G development? – 2020 update

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Matthew Noble

Partner
UK

I am head of Patent Intelligence and a partner at Bird & Bird LLP, as well as the founder of twoBirds Pattern, Bird & Bird's patent intelligence consultancy offering.

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Richard Vary

Partner
UK

I specialise in patent disputes in the technology and communications industry.

The twoBirds Pattern team (Bird & Bird’s patent intelligence offering) have published on the difficulties in charting the leadership of companies in the 5G Standard Essential Patent (SEP) industry. The previous infographic published by the Pattern team here, included a figure which charted 5G patent leadership by country. This new infographic refreshes the figure for 2020 data, using the methodologies developed in our previous publications.

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Full article available on PatentHub

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