The Partnership was created on 1 January 2002 and has grown to 6 Partners and Associates in 2003 and to 27 Partners and Associates in 2009. We supplied nearly 10 000 hours of work to our customers in 2008.
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Since 1st January 2002 large projects such as | - MMS: strategy and implementation for global interoperability, interworking and roaming
- 3G national and international roaming
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Since mid 2003 stronger orientation to strategic themes such as | - Future of GSM
- Beyond 3G (UMTS), a strategy for operators
- Spectrum strategy
- Terminals’ strategy for operators
- IPR strategy for a network operator
- Significance of WLAN and WiMAX for mobile operators
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Since end 2004 involvement in IPR work in the context of licence negotiations, patent acquisitions and litigation. This has become our major focus since then. | - Technical work on individual patents: essentiality, infringement and validity (search for prior art)
- Analysis of patent portfolios: technical value, identification of strong and weak patents
- Work on ETSI IPR Policy: Interpretation, FRAND obligations
- We provide working papers, expert reports, expert and fact witnesses
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