A WiFi 6 patent pool has been formed by Sisvel, the same licensing group that has upturned the apple cart for the AOmedia AV1 video codec, which had aimed to be royalty-free. The bottom line is that licensing WiFi technology is tricky. The Sisvel WiFi 6 patent pool has been two years in the making, inevitably adding the next-generation WiFi standard to Sisvel’s existing WiFi/W-LAN pool, which offers a one-stop shop to license all standard-essential patents (SEP) for WiFi-enabled devices. These include the IEEE standards 802.11-2007 and 802.11‐2012 (which define MAC and PHY specifications), as well as WiFi 4 (802.11n) and WiFi 5 (802.11ac). However, these standards all fall under the Joint Licensing Program, while WiFi 6 has its own…