{"id":101047,"date":"2024-05-20T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greyb.com\/?post_type=newsletter&#038;p=101047"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:51:26","slug":"5g-patent-insights","status":"publish","type":"newsletter","link":"https:\/\/greyb.com\/newsletters\/5g-patent-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 6 5G SEP owners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you get a chance to explore our <a href=\"https:\/\/greyb.com\/5g-standard-essential-patents\/\">5G Essentiality Report<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My team\u2019s 5G SEP experts spent 20,000+ hours and <em>manually <\/em>analyzed 21,000 patents to identify the core SEP owners of 5G,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This herculean manual effort is what has made this report the most reliable source for understanding the global 5G patent landscape.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our report has even been cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iam-media.com\/article\/5g-sep-report-raises-key-questions-over-eus-proposed-essentiality-checks\">IAM<\/a>, for its insights into the EU&#8217;s proposed essentiality checks and how they could impact innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, what did we find?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For one, we found that among the 21,221 families with active patents, only 7950, or 37% are identified as core SEPs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that Huawei owns 14.5% of all core 5G SEPs followed by ZTE.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discover the leading \u201ctrue\u201d 5G SEP owners in our 5G Essentiality Report here-&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/greyb.com\/5g-standard-essential-patents\/\">https:\/\/greyb.com\/5g-standard-essential-patents\/<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":101093,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","service_relation":["88552","28136"],"industry_relation":["61081","25806"]},"newsletter_category":[1868,1853],"class_list":["post-101047","newsletter","type-newsletter","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newsletter_category-5g","newsletter_category-ict-telecommunication"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Top 6 5G SEP owners - GreyB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Get a clear picture of 5G patent ownership. 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