Huawei Technologies Co unveiled the royalty rates for its handsets, Wi-Fi, and internet of things patent license programs on Thursday, part of its broader push to share cutting-edge innovations with the world and support the common, sustainable development of industries globally.

华为技术公司周四公布了其手机、Wi-Fi和物联网专利许可项目的专利使用费，这是其与世界分享尖端创新、支持全球产业共同可持续发展的更广泛努力的一部分。

Under these licenses, Huawei’s total past royalty payments are about three times its royalty collections, and its 2022 licensing revenue amounted to $560 million.

根据这些许可证，华为过去的版税支付总额约为其版税收入的三倍，2022年的许可收入达5.6亿美元。

Huawei said royalty rate caps for 4G and 5G handsets are $1.5 per unit and $2.5 per unit, respectively.

华为表示，4G和5G手机的使用费上限分别为每部1.5美元和2.5美元。

Huawei’s royalty rate for Wi-Fi 6 consumer devices, meanwhile, is $0.5 per unit.

同时，华为对Wi-Fi 6消费类设备的使用费为每台0.5美元。

The company said its net profit margin rose by 3.8 percentage points on a yearly basis to 11.1 percent during the first three months of the year, primarily as a result of its ongoing efforts to improve the quality of operations and management efficiency, as well as patent royalty income of $600 million.

Huawei Technologies Co's decision to charge royalty fees for the use of its 5G technologies in smartphones will help the Chinese tech company continue its heavy spending on research and development, and enable it to better cope with the challenges arising from the US government restrictions, experts said on Wednesday.

Xiang Ligang, director-general of the Information Consumption Alliance, a telecom industry association, said it is a common practice for tech companies to charge fees for the use of their patents, and the royalty rates Huawei charges are lower than that of its competitors such as Finnish telecom company Nokia and Swedish company Ericsson.

Though the money Huawei derives from royalty fees is not much compared to its overall revenue, it can help the company replenish its cash reserves to better manage its supply chains, which are under heavy pressure amid Washington's restrictions, said Fu Liang, an independent analyst who has been following the telecom sector for more than a decade.

Song Liuping, chief legal officer of Huawei, said royalty fees will not be a major revenue source for the company, and Huawei will continue to focus on developing telecom products and services.

Huawei Technologies Co disclosed on Tuesday the royalty rates for the use of its 5G technologies in smartphones, as the Chinese tech giant aims to increase transparency about its intellectual property.

He added that the company hopes the royalty rate it announced on Tuesday will increase 5G adoption by giving 5G implementers a more transparent cost structure that will inform their investment decisions.

Huawei Technologies Co disclosed on Tuesday the royalty rates for the use of its 5G technologies in smartphones, as the Chinese tech giant aims to increase transparency about its intellectual property issues.

He added the company hopes the royalty rate announced on Tuesday will increase 5G adoption by giving 5G implementers a more transparent cost structure that will inform their investment decisions moving forward.

"With 100,000 paid users, the latest move is to move its huge user base to more niche products, which will furthermore increase their royalty to the platform, said industry insiders.

Apple Inc and Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday decided to drop all ongoing litigations and settle their royalty dispute, reaching an agreement on global patent license and chipset supply.

Later Qualcomm hit back with its own lawsuit, alleging that Apple used its heft in the electronics business to wrongly order contract factories such as Hon Hai Precision Co Ltd's Foxconn to withhold royalty payments from Qualcomm that Apple had historically reimbursed to the factories.

In addition to working with the Palace Museum on ancient royalty themes, the biggest intellectual property of the year is the adorable pig image, as the 12-month lunar period beginning Feb 5 is regarded the Year of the Pig.

That means Ant Financial will consequently cease royalty and technology payments to Alibaba that hit roughly 2.09 billion yuan ($333 million) last fiscal year.

It said the accusations of illegal royalty payments that the India government had against foreign companies would have a "chilling effect "on the Indian business environment.

China's fast-growing esports sector will continue to attract Saudi capital in the years ahead providing huge opportunities for gaming companies and talents in both sides, said a Saudi royalty.

These services may create abundant business opportunities for companies in the real estate sector, and allow people to live like royalty.

In a recent landmark ruling, the Chongqing Intermediate People's Court established a set of global FRAND (fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory) royalty rates for SEP (standard essential patent) licensing for cellular handsets in Oppo vs Nokia.

This ruling has a profound impact in that this is the first time for a Chinese court to make an SEP ruling on royalty rates in the cellular communications industry, imparting global implications, and particularly so in the wake of wide applications of 5G technologies in internet of things, autos and other industries, that can potentially provide a much expanded royalty base for 5G SEP licensing.

For example, a patent lawyer in New York, Mark Cohen, wrote recently: "Establishing a lower royalty rate for one set of countries as compared to another without a basis in patent law violates China's obligations to provide most favored nation treatment to the party asserting the patents, by providing lower damages in certain countries.

First, the court's ruling is over royalties and royalty rates; they are not "damages".

Second, the assertion that the royalty discount violates China's WTO MFN commitment is totally absurd in that the royalty discount is not about paying a foreign licensor less compared to a domestic licensor, nor about a lesser amount to be paid by a domestic licensee compared to a foreign licensee.

It is about different treatment of countries, economies and territories where the royalty base originates.

In fact, this ruling of differentiated royalty rates could also equally apply to, say Huawei as a licensor, collecting royalties here in China and, say, Apple as a licensee, that stands to pay royalties here in China.

In Huawei vs Conversant in Nanjing, China, the court also accepted royalty discount based on territories.

As far as I know, Nokia's own rounds of offerings to Oppo during the royalty negotiation stage before they eventually see each other in court also contain provisions of territory-based discounts, as witnessed in the judge's verdict (page 57), citing a report submitted by Nokia's own expert witness.

Huawei Technologies Co unveiled on Thursday the royalty rates for its handsets, Wi-Fi devices, and the internet of things products, as part of a broader push to share cutting-edge innovations in areas where the technology behemoth is a top standards-essential patent holder.

At the event, Huawei said the royalty rate caps for 4G and 5G handsets are $1.5 per unit and $2.5 per unit, respectively.

Its royalty rate for Wi-Fi 6 consumer devices is $0.5 per unit.

We believe reasonable royalty rates will incentivize both the creation and adoption of innovations," he said.

Under these licenses, Huawei's total past royalty payments to other companies is about three times its total royalty collections, and its 2022 licensing revenue amounted to $560 million.

It is common practice for tech companies to charge fees for the use of their patents, and royalty rates that Huawei charges are lower than those of its competitors, such as Finnish telecom company Nokia and Sweden's Ericsson, said Xiang Ligang, director-general of the Information Consumption Alliance, a telecom industry association.

Xiang Ligang, director-general of the Information Consumption Alliance, a telecom industry association, said it is common practice for tech companies to charge fees for the use of their patents, and royalty rates Huawei charges are lower than those of its competitors such as Finnish telecom company Nokia and Sweden's Ericsson.

Song Liuping, chief legal officer at Huawei, said earlier that royalty fees will not be a major revenue source for the company, and Huawei will continue to focus on developing telecom products and services.

Any company that owns standard essential patents can request royalty payments from the entities that use them.

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