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The Industry Landscape has Changed

Since the early 1990's Nokia has built a robust intellectual property rights (IPR) portfolio as a result of investing over €30 billion in research and development. Nokia is well positioned to maintain its IPR leadership position in the wireless industry well into the future.

Nokia has grown its IPR portfolio by over 1,000 patent filings per year currently applying for approximately 11,000 patented innovations. Globally, its portfolio includes around 47,000 global patents and patent applications.

Nokia has been extremely active in standardization work in all major communications bodies including for example ETSI, ITU and IETF.

As a founding member in GSM, and world leader in the development of GSM/WCDMA, Nokia holds a strong patent position in these technologies. In GSM, Nokia’s share of essential IPR is approximately 45 per cent of the patents judged to be essential to the standard making Nokia the undisputed leader in GSM IPR.

Nokia has actively contributed to the evolution of GSM to WCDMA. This is demonstrated by its leading 30 per cent share patents judged essential to the WCDMA standard.

Nokia’s CDMA2000 portfolio is also strong with 13 per cent share of IPR judged essential to the CDMA2000 standard. Nokia runs a successful licensing program for its essential CDMA IPR portfolio

Nokia is investing heavily in LTE development and believes that its leading contribution will result in a strong IPR portfolio.

Nokia has a strong IPR position across all major cellular standards, data applications and user interfaces (UI). In addition to cellular technologies, Nokia has a solid WiMAX, BREW and MediaFlo patent portfolio.

The technologies in wireless devices have changed dramatically since the early 1990’s and so has the industry landscape. An increasing number of companies are contributing technology to open standards. Today’s complex wireless devices incorporate multiple radio standards and a number of convergence technologies.

How companies exchange their standards-related intellectual property is critical to delivering next generation technologies. Licensing intellectual capital on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms creates open and more predictable market conditions that stimulate innovation, foster competition and ensure the widespread adoption of technology.

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