The cellular industry’s traditional, fiercely protected approach to licensing patents has been under attack in recent years from several quarters – the rise of new mobile giants with their own IPR, such as Apple; the increasing importance of standards from the IEEE or MPEG LA, which have different licensing approaches and are insisting on new rules; the impact of open source; weariness with patent litigation and trolls; antitrust investigations into standards-essential patent (SEP) practices by the European Commission and other agencies. The latest development which may force the giants of cellular patents to adjust their licensing models comes from South Korea and China. Both countries are in the process of adopting antitrust policies which would require vendors to license their…