With news that Ericsson, Nokia, and Fraunhofer’s HHI wing have submitted a joint proposal for a 6G-native video encoding technology, the age-old question of patents and intellectual property (IP) revenue comes to the fore. How much of a cash or land-grab are the trio hoping to make, or is this more towards the altruistic end of the scale? As we outlined last week, Qualcomm’s total licensing revenue dwarfs the other three companies. Its cellular SEP portfolio is the reason behind this, but digging a little deeper into this market is something that RAN Research (the forecasting product that complements Wireless Watch) is interested in doing. There is no centralized resource that lists who holds which patents in the cellular SEP…