protection and development of intellectual property
Intellectual property is an integral part of the Orange innovation strategy. With over 300 annual patent requests for new inventions, Orange is developing its portfolio, which today represents more than 8,000 patents.
A centralized patent attorney team is working together with a licensing team and specialized lawyers in order to :
protect Orange innovations that are to be embeded in its services and products,
add value to its Research investments,
defend its Intellectual Property interests, through purchase agreements and partnership negociations.
The patents in the Orange portfolio include as various technologies as coding and digital compression, or the Operator's services content.
protect Orange innovations that are to be embeded in its services and products, add value to its Research investments, defend its Intellectual Property interests, through purchase agreements and partnership negociations. The patents in the Orange portfolio include as various technologies as coding and digital compression, or the Operator's services content.
an active Licensing policy on patents and software
Orange creates value for its patents and software within a strategy of open innovation using various approaches including patents licensing programmes developed by its licnesing team, participation in "patent pools", and technology transfers.
Particularly active in standardisation, Orange participates today in some twenty "patent pools" (groups of patent holders) which it helps to set up in order to market the licenses covering standardised technologies and facilitate their deployment in areas such as voice coding, audio coding (MP3 and AAC) and video coding (MPEG), digital TV broadcasting, 3G mobile networks and wifi networks (802.11).
The Group was also a pioneer in "turbocodes", a coding technology that maximises the flows transmitted over many types of networks (mobile, satellite, etc.), for which it has licensed the major market players.
In software, the radio engineering modules developed by Orange, which generate value from its expertise, are already integrated in the offers of several industrial partners.
Orange creates value for its patents and software within a strategy of open innovation using various approaches including patents licensing programmes developed by its licnesing team, participation in "patent pools", and technology transfers.
Particularly active in standardisation, Orange participates today in some twenty "patent pools" (groups of patent holders) which it helps to set up in order to market the licenses covering standardised technologies and facilitate their deployment in areas such as voice coding, audio coding (MP3 and AAC) and video coding (MPEG), digital TV broadcasting, 3G mobile networks and wifi networks (802.11).
The Group was also a pioneer in "turbocodes", a coding technology that maximises the flows transmitted over many types of networks (mobile, satellite, etc.), for which it has licensed the major market players.
In software, the radio engineering modules developed by Orange, which generate value from its expertise, are already integrated in the offers of several industrial partners.
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