Patent Attorney and Founder
Um okay so Chad I wanted to follow up with this standard essential patent you’re talking about 5G um give me an example but what is a standard essential patent you have to for everybody in the world to be able to communicate in the same way you go from the US to uh Asia or you go us to Europe they all have to be practicing the same standards so that all the cell phones will work in in all locations so so Senator Central patent basically um you know these companies a number of companies participate in the standard setting uh process so they go to the standards meetings they come up with ideas they collaborate with other companies you know but they’re still very active in the standard setting process um they get together they come up with ideas and then they submit their ideas to the standards and what they do is they patent those ideas and if the standard uh body adopts those ideas and puts those ideas into the standard then the patent is considered to be standard essential meaning it’s you have to practice that patent if you’re practicing the standard you are practicing the patent