Chapter 42 The number of patents is the first in the world

Huawei has always respected the intellectual property rights of others, but also paid attention to protecting its own intellectual property rights.Huawei has sincerely reached some intellectual property cross-licensing agreements with many Western companies in accordance with international practice.The broadband product DSLAM was invented by Alcatel. After two years of patent cross-licensing negotiations, Huawei has reached a licensing agreement with other companies. Huawei will pay a certain fee in exchange for eliminating obstacles to global sales. With hard work, Huawei's DSLAM market share has reached the second place in the world.The international market is an environment ruled by law and full of lawsuits. With these valuable experiences, Huawei will not panic in the future.In the future, Huawei still needs to obtain large-scale income overseas. If there is no licensing agreement with Western companies and the peaceful development environment created by it, this plan cannot be realized.Huawei has paid patent licensing fees, but Huawei has also gained greater output value and faster growth as a result.

Ren Zhengfei said: "Today, due to the openness and transparency of technical standards, it will be difficult for a company or a country to hold an absolute advantage in basic patents in the future. The decentralization of such key patents has laid the foundation for cross-licensing patents and mutual authorization. The other party's patents will become more generalized. The development of the Internet has made inventions more widespread and easier." Huawei is fully aware of the need to integrate into the international market "club" in terms of intellectual property rights. Intellectual property rights are an entry ticket to the international market. Without it, it is difficult for high-tech products to enter the international market.

Huawei invests more than 10% of its sales revenue in technology research and development every year, narrowing the gap with Western companies in terms of research funding and narrowing the gap in intellectual property rights. Currently, Huawei has more than 40,000 patent applications, but compared to global The accumulation of decades is still insignificant.Intellectual property investment is a strategic investment. Unlike product development, which can see results quickly and within one or two years, it requires a long-term and continuous accumulation process. Ren Zhengfei also fully realized that the growth process of basic patents is very long and difficult. The formation of basic patents takes a long time, and one must endure loneliness and be willing to be mediocre. Impatience will lead to mistakes.The formation of basic patents is frozen three feet, not a day's cold.Even the growth process of applied basic patents will take at least 3 to 5 years.Huawei has always advocated and established corresponding mechanisms, encouraging people to sit on the bench for ten years, and at the same time firmly go out to actively integrate into international industry organizations, extensively communicate, cooperate, and coordinate with industry peers; especially in industry forums and industry standard development Actively participate in the organization and work together for the growth and development of the industry.Although Huawei has applied for more than 40,000 patents at home and abroad, Huawei knows that there are not many real core basic patents.Therefore, Huawei continues to increase investment in functions, features, and engineering implementation technologies, and continues to oppose blind innovation, smallholder awareness, self-enclosure, and closed-door construction. It insists on both cooperation and self-research. Following the trend and complying with the corresponding rules, we have accumulated a lot of resources, launched in an orderly manner, cooperated extensively, and complemented each other's advantages, so as to jointly promote the development and progress of the industry and build a good business development environment.

As a neighbor who also set up a factory in Shenzhen, Foxconn’s boss, Terry Gou, admired Ren Zhengfei very much. He found that Huawei paid twice the salary and recruited a lot of talents from Foxconn to apply for patents. "I think Huawei is great. Why? Because it has the vision of patents. The more patents it has, the stronger its competitiveness." However, most Chinese companies established at the same time as Huawei are accustomed to taking shortcuts and importing advanced technologies from abroad. Technology is exchanged for technology by the market. As a result, the technology is not exchanged and the market is completely lost.

According to statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organization, in 2009, Huawei applied for 6,770 new patents, and the cumulative number of patent applications reached 42,543.In the field of LTE/EPC, Huawei's number of basic patents ranks second in the world.At the same time, Huawei has integrated into and supported mainstream international standards, and has already played an important role in them.As of 2010, Huawei held 148 key leadership positions in 123 standards organizations. Kuhn, a well-known international investment banker in the United States, commented on China's Huawei: Huawei has become one of the most powerful communication equipment manufacturers in the world. With its patents and innovations, it has become a symbol of China's new enterprises.Although many people once criticized Huawei as a "second-rate company", Huawei has now become a world-class innovation leader, and its rise has shocked the original big players—such as Nortel, Nokia, and Alcatel-Lucent.

The road of Huawei's growth and expansion is the road of continuous technology marketization and the road of continuous training of technology businessmen.In the future, enterprises and talents who conduct business operations on scientific and technological knowledge are the real rulers!