Cases Study Of H Company's Patent Competitive Advantage Based On Value Chain

With the growing of global communications market and mobile phones,the communications industry's competitive focus has undergone tremendous changes;Technological competitiveness has become one of the important strategies for development of enterprises.As we all know,only a smart phone may involve thousands of patents.Patents have become an important weapon in the communications industry for a company to compete with its competitors.In recent years,the patent litigations between enterprises become more and more frequently,but Chinese companies rarely take the initiative in the patent battle.Through the combination of case description and theoretical analysis,this paper studies the patent cases of Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd.(referred to as H Company),which has developed nearly 30 years in the industry.In 2003,H Company was involved into a Cisco patent litigation case as the defendant.H Company won the patent litigation in the end.Many years later in 2016,H Company stood at the highest point in the field of world communications,was into the "Patents Disputing" once again,H Company sued Samsung,H Company sued T-mobile,Nokia sued to H Company also,the situation was quite complicated.The research of enterprise intellectual property and competitive advantage based on the value chain management theory is to help H Company to explore issues of their intellectual property and key development elements.This paper mainly studies how the company enhances its competitive advantage through H Company's patent cases.The theory of value chain of intellectual property provides a basis theoretical for enterprises to enhance their technological competitive advantage.This paper is of great value for domestic communication enterprises to better build their intellectual property competitiveness.At the same time,it provides some reference to the other enterprises.