One of the drivers behind various countries’ attempts to invest in homegrown 5G platforms is to reduce reliance on foreign technology and to build up valuable intellectual property assets. For 5G, however, that bird may have flown when it comes to standards-essential patents (SEP), and some major patent holders, and their governments, are already starting to look to 6G. For all the efforts by US-aligned countries to dominate the latest wave of 5G technology, most of that success has related to open platforms or software layers, not to the foundational IPR of the mobile networks. In that area, according to US-based patent advisory firm Tech+IP, China’s Huawei is clearly in first place, a finding that will raise many concerns…