'Listen, learn and agree': Avanci's senior VP on its 5G licensing programme

24-08-2023

Sarah Speight

'Listen, learn and agree': Avanci's senior VP on its 5G licensing programme

Laurie Fitzgerald, vice president at Avanci

Laurie Fitzgerald, who led the patent licensing pool’s latest connected vehicle programme to eventual realisation, tells Sarah Speight how listening to stakeholders was pivotal.

Last week, Avanci launched its much-anticipated 5G connected vehicle licensing programme, with 58 initial licensors signing up and Mercedes-Benz as the first licensee.

This was a pretty big deal, considering that back in 2021, Avanci’s senior vice president Laurie Fitzgerald told WIPR that “Finding common ground between just a single licensee and single licensor could take months, if not years.”

No surprise, then, that the new programme was launched much later than planned, according to Fitzgerald in a fresh interview following the launch.


patents, Avanci, licensing, 5G, connected vehicles, technology, Mercedes-Benz, Huawei

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