Open Patent Alliance WiMAX patent issued to convene

Committed to support the development and MAX478ESA datasheet and adoption of WiMAX solutions to provide intellectual property Open Patent Alliance (Open Patent Alliance, referred to as OPA) has announced the convening of a patent to cover important to create a WiMAX patent pool of patents (patent pool .) OPA has selected Via Licensing Corporation as a representative, to promote the establishment and MAX478ESA price and management of the patent pool.

A WiMAX patent pool to help businesses of all sizes through the simple and MAX478ESA suppliers and cost-effective way to obtain the necessary patents. OPA plans to build a fair, transparent and has a reasonable royalty of intellectual property licensing structure, creating a patent pool is an important part of the plan. By those who wish to develop innovative products and services companies to reduce the "entry threshold", the patent pool will accelerate WiMAX adoption worldwide, as well as WiMAX technology, devices and applications to promote innovation, to promote a wider choice and lower costs.

OPA president Yung Hahn said: "Today we call patents issued in seeking to build an innovative and truly open WiMAX eco-system, an important milestone in the process. The patent pool will not only help reduce the cost of OPA using WiMAX technology , and also allows us to build a more predictable cost structure for the worldwide infrastructure providers, equipment manufacturers and application developers to use. "

WiMAX IEEE 802.16e standard is based on the 4G IP wireless broadband technology, rich content and bandwidth-intensive video applications in the mobile Internet era to achieve a more low-cost, multi-megabit speed and greater throughput.

OPA members include Acer (Acer), Alcatel - Lucent (Alcatel-Lucent), Alvarion (Alvarion), Cisco (Cisco), Clearwire, Huawei, Intel Corporation (Intel Corporation) and Samsung (Samsung Electronics ), and new associate members announced Beceem, GCT Semiconductor, Sequans, and UQ Communications, reflected from the 4G ecosystem (from semiconductor manufacturers, consumer equipment manufacturers to service providers) is widely supported.

Through a more competitive royalty structure, WiMAX patent pool will help to more predictable costs to ensure product differentiation and interoperability. This long-term success of WiMAX is critical and widely used, so smart phones, consumer electronics and PC industries to more quickly integrate into its wireless broadband products.

Independent third party appraiser or patent evaluators will evaluate submitted patents to determine whether these patents important. For that very important to have on WiMAX patents or pending patent applications, all entities are welcome to contact Via Licensing for information about how to submit patents for evaluation by an independent third party patent information on the importance of the assessment.

Although OPA initially will focus on the WiMAX standard, but the future of the Union will cooperate with other industry groups.