It has been a busy week on the patent front, with Ericsson hitting a record high for licensing revenue, Sisvel launching a WiFi 7 patent pool, Geely seeking global FRAND rates against Nokia, and Xiaomi battling a record-breaking UPC caseload. Globally, the intensity of IP disputes is heating up. The arrival of 6G and WiFi 8 will raise the temperature, but governments the world over are going to lean on the patent portfolios of their resident companies as levers to pull in these uncertain geopolitical times, as we have reported previously. Ericsson’s high The briefest news is that Ericsson saw its full-year intellectual property revenues (IPR) grow to $370 million (SEK 3.3 billion) in Q4 2025, and its full-year hit…