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Huawei in early talks with U.S. firms to license 5G platform

uk.reuters.com

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"Early talks" probably isn't substantive enough to count as significant new information. Did I miss something?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Here, I'll paste the quote that substantiates this entire story-- Vincent Pang (Huawei): “There are some companies talking to us, but it would take a long journey to really finalize everything... they have shown interest."

The exec response can be coming from a variety of angles:

1) Reuters reached out and he simply provided a snippet of what is happening;

2) US firms are interested in the product;

3) US firms are interested in using this conversation to leverage negotiations with another party;

4) Whether they are getting little to no traction or some, Huawei may be trying to say "look, we are not nuclear, others are talking to us, you should too' to prop up interest and willingness via journalism.

At this point we might as well go full patent war and each side can just openly declare the other's patents are void.

China already steals what they want.

Chinese companies pay a very large amount of licensing fees to American companies. Huawei itself has paid $6 billion in licensing fees since 2001, with 80% of the fees going to US companies.

1. https://www.zdnet.com/article/over-6b-in-ip-royalties-paid-b...

Cannot do that because those patents are used by products they sell to each other.

Not recognising other countries' patents is really a possibility is you don't sell them anything similarly patented in return.

For example, the US could get away with not recognising foreign copyright at one point because they had no copyrighted material of their own to sell abroad.

What you describe only works if both sides recognize each other's patents. That is clearly not the case between the US and China.

It is at the moment. Both countries recognize each others' patents, though Marco Rubio has advocated nullifying Huawei patents in the US.

Meh. We should go straight to 6G at this point. It's not like 5G is a pressing need. Current 4G LTE is more than fast enough for just about everybody.

Well, people are already thinking about 6G, so we may have to hold off for 7G.

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