Hedwig Wireless Technologies LLC (“HWT”) owns patents originating from two different patents owners:
FRAND Principles
The HWT portfolio includes patents which may be or may become essential to implementing industry standards, and is prepared to grant licenses on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) terms and conditions, to the extent the patents are essential. The HWTZ portfolio includes patents which may be or may become essential to implementing industry standards, and for which commitments to be prepared to grant licenses on FRAND terms and conditions, to the extent the patents are essential, were made by the prior owners of the patents.
For more information regarding the specific rates HWT is prepared to accept, as well as the scope of the licensing commitments made and the assets in the respective portfolios, please see:
A presentation regarding FRAND royalty rates for 4G/5G related patents including, amongst other things, announced rates as well as those determined using judicially endorsed top-down and bottom-up analyses, is available upon request.
HWT believes its approach to making specific offers is FRAND. To the extent an implementer disagrees, HWT encourages such implementers, as a matter of good faith negotiations, to explain their position regarding FRAND terms and conditions and provide support for the same. For example, this can be done by referring to other licenses entered into with respect to patents relating to the same or comparable standards, including those patents owed by the implementer itself.
Notwithstanding any specific offers made, if the parties are unable to reach a mutually agreeable licensing arrangement through good faith bilateral negotiations HWT is prepared to negotiate an arbitration agreement for resolving the matter. Specifically, HWT is open to negotiating arbitration terms that are appropriate in view of the amount at stake and that are fair to both parties. HWT is also open to mediating in appropriate circumstances.
HWT Portfolio: 4G/5G cellular technologies
The HWT portfolio relates to the aggregation of carriers in unlicensed (Wi-Fi) bands implemented in 3GPP standards (4G and 5G) to offload licensed carriers and increase data rates.
HWTZ Portfolio: 4G/5G cellular technologies
The HWTZ portfolio relates to various technologies used in 4G and 5G cellular systems, such as technologies related to improving user accessibility in an ISR mode of a multi-mode terminal, traffic offloading to non-3GPP networks such as Wi-Fi networks, encoding of ACK/NACK and Rank Indicator Signalling, feeding back CSI for MU-MIMO mode, determining PUCCH Resources, feeding back information for unlicensed band operation, and the flexible configuration of transmit and receive beams.
For more information on the portfolio, please contact us.