A WiFi 6 patent pool has been formed by Sisvel, the same licensing group that has disrupted the AV1 apple cart. 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 WiFi/W-LAN patent pool, which offers a one-stop shop to license all standard essential patents 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 standalone licensing program, the first of its type for any WiFi…