Samsung Electronics Drives Increase in DSEPs
The Korean Intellectual Property Office announced on May 9 that South Korea reported 3,344 declared standard essential patents (DSEPs) until last year to the three largest international standardization organizations, that is, ISO, IEC and ITU.
At the end of 2016, South Korea came in fifth in the world with 519. Last year, however, it took the top spot with the United States, Finland, Japan and France recording 2,793, 2,579, 1,939 and 1,283, respectively.
The 3,344 DSEPs include 2,799 of Samsung Electronics and 251 of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. Nokia, Thomson Licensing and Apple had 2,559, 907 and 350 DSEPs in the three organizations at the end of last year, respectively.
Last year’s rapid increase on South Korea’s part is because Samsung Electronics declared approximately 2,500 video codec-related SEPs in ISO/IEC JTC1 in the second half of 2020 alone.
When it comes to DSEPs reported last year to the five largest international standardization organizations, the United States came in first with 24,661, followed by China (21,805) and South Korea (17,492). The top five entities in this statistics are Qualcomm (10,252), Nokia (10,215), Huawei (9,037), Samsung Electronics (8,719) and LG Electronics (6,648).