PA\'s IPR Services In Wireless Technology - May 2009
- 2. Contents
• Introduction to PA
• PA’s Communications and Electronic
Systems
• Examples of our Technology
Development
• PA’s Intellectual Property Services
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- 3. Introduction to PA. . .
Summary of PA
• Founded 60 years ago
Lysaker
Helsinki
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Utrecht Stockholm
More than 40 offices in 20 countries Moscow
Copenhagen
UK: Dublin
Prague
Kazakhstan
London Frankfurt
Cambridge, MA Paris Romania
Madison Cambridge Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan
Bosnia & Herz Georgia
New York
Boulder Chicago
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Belfast Armenia Beijing
Tajikistan
Princeton
Around 3,000 people Turkmenistan Tokyo
Los Angeles Birmingham
Washington
Houston Jordan
Glasgow
Egypt Pakistan
Manchester
Mexico Bangladesh Hong Kong
Barbados
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Bangalore
Major focus on technology Nigeria
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Jakarta
•
Lima
Major presence in wireless and 3G
Buenos Aires
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= PA office Sydney
Pioneer in Software Defined Radio (SDR) for Auckland
Melbourne
Wellington
wireless infrastructure and terminals
• Leading provider of support in wireless IPR
HQ in London Cambridge Technology Centre
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- 4. PA’s Communications and Electronic Systems …
PA’s Communications and Electronic Systems
Part of PA’s Global Technology Group.
We are a group of engineers and Networks
scientists based in our Cambridge
Technology Centre in the UK.
Applications
Our skills cover all aspects of technology
development, including:
• Radio front-end design Protocol Stack
• Baseband hardware, FPGA and ASIC
• Embedded software and protocol
Embedded Software
stacks
• Handset Applications
• Network design Baseband hardware
Radio front-end
We provide expert technical services to
our clients in wireless technologies
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- 5. PA’s Communications and Electronic Systems …
PA’s Communications and Electronic Systems
We help our clients develop and grow their businesses through Innovation and the
application of Technology.
We do this in three main areas:
• Providing strategic advice on the application of technology
• Improving our clients’ effectiveness in product innovation and manufacturing
• Complementing our clients’ capability by developing technologies for them
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- 6. Technology Development …
Two decades providing leading edge technology
2005: World’s first
2001: Real time video
1999: First 3G 3G software
telephony over packet
video call demo, defined
channels, with
with Motorola interference test
Alphamosaic
simulator
2007: PA helps
1989: GSM
develop the first
equaliser
Vodafone-only
demo
branded handset
1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
1985
1995: GSM chipset
development for
2007: Mobile
2006: PA leads a
Far Eastern
WiMAX
1999: Ubinetics consortium
Manufacturer 2002: multi-mode
development using
spin-out – developing
3G base station
SDR techniques
World’s first 3G technologies for
baseband, with
test mobile Galileo
ADI
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- 7. Technology Development …
3G Development: PA Ventures: UbiNetics
• Formed in January 1999 - spun off
from wireless technology
• Using IPR developed by PA
Consulting to deliver products
• Wireless solutions to voice
and data centric markets
• Solutions for 3G in test and
tools markets
• Customisation of wireless
technology using established agility
• Sold to Cambridge Silicon Radio and
Aeroflex in 2005
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- 8. Technology Development …
PA’s 3G developments – fixed wireless access
• Hardware and Radio for innovative
service
• Wireless “last mile access”
• Complex modulation
• High power output
• Thermal management
• Engineered for initial production run
• Plastics designed and prototyped in
house
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- 9. PA helped Vodafone to develop the first Vodafone-only branded handset
• Vodafone decided to commission
Huawei Technologies to develop and
manufacture a customised,
competitively-priced 3G handset.
• Vodafone asked PA to help ensure a
successful outcome within the
challenging nine-month timescale
• PA helped Vodafone to gain the
benefits of offshore development –
fast delivery at lower cost – with
minimal risk and no sacrifice of quality
• The project was outstandingly
successful. The Vodafone 710 3G
handset was delivered on schedule,
and Vodafone launched the product
across Europe in October 2006.
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- 10. PA’s role coordinating Galileo Development
• PA led a consortium of European
companies developing technologies
for Europe’s Galileo Satellite
Navigation System.
• The GREAT has delivered a library of
IP blocks, which deliver “best in class”
price/performance for a Galileo
receiver for Location Based Service
applications – exploiting the special
capabilities of the Galileo signal.
• The programme has demonstrated a
system built using the results of the
work by different members of the
consortium including advanced
baseband algorithms
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- 11. IPR Services …
PA’s IPR Services
PA Consulting Group has been active in IPR in mobile technologies for over 12 years.
We are engineers, not lawyers, but we have a good understanding of claim language.
About 80% of our business is technology development for our clients in 2.5G/3G and
beyond 3G technologies.
We use of understanding of patents and our expertise in the standards to provide IPR
services to our clients.
We offer two services in IPR:
• Standard reports
• Custom IPR consulting Services
We are members of ETSI, UMTS Forum and the WiMAX Forum and have links with IP
thought leaders including the European Commissions and a network of patent
attorneys and law firms. We have supported a number of high profile litigation cases in
the US, UK and Europe.
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- 12. Standard IPR Reports …
PA’s Standard IPR Reports
We currently offer a number of standard reports including:
• How to license GSM - which summarizes who owns Essential IP, how they tend to
behave, what royalty rate they are likely to charge and licensing strategies
• PA’s patent-by-patent analysis of patents declared Essential to 3G.
PA’s reports are well known in the industry and have been purchased by more than 20
leading manufacturers of infrastructure and handsets
• Customers include some of the biggest players in 3G
• Customers range across Europe, US, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
We believe we are the only independent source of information on the truly Essential
patents and this is reflected in the industry recognition for our services.
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- 13. Standard IPR Reports …
PA’s 3G Essential IPR reports – a patent-by-patent analysis
PA has taken the lists of patents declared
to ETSI and ARIB (several thousand
families) and evaluated each one against
the 3G specifications to understand
whether it is really Essential or just a useful
implementation.
This information has been captured into a
database (part of the deliverable) and we
provide a report analyzing the strengths
and weaknesses of various companies.
We have packages for:
• WCDMA/HSDPA
• cdma2000 1x/EV-DO
• 3GPP-LTE
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- 14. Custom IPR Consulting Services …
Custom Consulting Services in IPR
In addition to our standard reports we also provide customized IP consultancy:
• Patent strategy – Although companies recognize that patents have value, they often don't
maximize the benefit of this early enough when developing IP. PA provides strategic consulting
services to help companies target and exploit IP to achieve maximum value.
• Patent mining – We search your patent portfolio to locate patents you own which might be
Essential to the various wireless standards. Our evaluation methodology allows us to rapidly cut
down hundreds of candidate patents into a few tens which can be further evaluated. Claim charts
can be developed if required.
• Patent Evaluation – Our skills in patent evaluation and ten years' experience in wireless patent
evaluations and the licensing industry are at your disposal. Typically we are asked to develop
claim charts for specific patents or assist in developing a licensing strategy.
• Prior Art Searching – We provide technical expertise to identify if components of the invention
claimed in a patent were known prior to the filing of the patent and thus are invalid. This
information can be used by patent attorneys as defense against alleged infringement action, or as
leverage in negotiation with other parties for patent acquisition.
• Litigation Support – Either direct support to attorneys or testifying expert. PA provides individuals
with technical experience in developing wireless products with specific expertise and real industry
knowledge.
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- 15. Custom IPR Consulting Services …
WiMAX Patent Evaluation - Siemens
Siemens has an extensive portfolio of
Intellectual Property (IP) including
WCDMA, cdma2000 and WiMAX. To
optimize licensing revenues, Siemens’
licensing division needs to understand
which patents are Technically Essential.
Siemens turned to PA for help.
PA used its rapid patent evaluation skills to
locate potentially Essential patents from
large candidate lists. PA’s engineers then
worked with Siemens’ patent attorneys and
engineers to evaluate these potentially
Essential patents in detail, including
developing claim charts where appropriate.
PA’s efforts helped Siemens grow its
Essential IP portfolio in the technologies of
interest and present a clear picture of the
portfolio to its licensees.
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- 16. Contact details
For more information, contact:
Graham Bell
Communications and Electronic Systems
Cambridge Technology Centre
Melbourn
Hertfordshire
Tel: +44 1763 267 325
E-mail: graham.bell@paconsulting.com
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