Nokia 2015 Annual Report Download - page 40

38 NOKIA IN 2015
Nokia Technologies in 2016 continued
Research and development
The Nokia Technologies team of world-class
scientists and engineers has driven more
thanhalf of Nokia’s recent patent lings.
Theapplied nature of our R&D in Nokia
Technologies has resulted in various relevant
and valuable inventions in technology areas,
which we believe are important for emerging
consumer experiences in the Programmable
World, such as underlying connectivity and
sensing technologies as well as codecs for
virtual reality video and audio and advanced
machine learning-based analytics of
healthdata.
Nokia Technologies has R&D activities in
Finland, the United Kingdom and the
UnitedStates.
Nokia Technologies holds several central roles
in standardization bodies and contributes to
standardization work by ling technical
proposals which, when found relevant, are
often accepted and embodied in standards.
Inaddition, Nokia Technologies develops
reference implementations while dening
thestandards, which result in signicant
innovations covering proprietary ways to
implement relevant technologies.
Patents and licenses
Intellectual property assets are fundamental
to Nokia, which now controls three distinct
IPportfolios: the Nokia Networks, Alcatel
Lucent and Nokia Technologies portfolios.
Forinformation on the rst two portfolios,
pleaserefer to “Business Overview—Networks
business in 2016—Patents and Licenses”.
We continue to renew our patent portfolio
with innovations from our strong R&D teams
in Nokia Technologies.
Competition
The Nokia Technologies patent portfolio
spans a number of technology categories
including radio connectivity and networking,
multimedia, user interface and mobile device
software and hardware products. As Nokia
Technologies expands its successful licensing
program to cover patents which have not
been broadly licensed to date, as well
asproprietary technologies and other
intellectual property, it could face competition
from alternate technologies or solutions.
However, it is too early to anticipate which
ofthese may be signicant in the future.
While several major technology companies
areentering the virtual reality market, it
isstillnascent, and long-term trends for
captureand playback solutions have not
yetbeen identied.
Breakdown of Nokia Technologies’
IP portfolio
1 Radio 23%
2 Networks & Services 22%
3 Hardware 20%
4 Maps & Location 8%
5 Multimedia 12%
6 User Interface 8%
7 Software 7%
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