The primary goal of the Open Patent Alliance (OPA) is to foster a global ecosystem focused on delivering broader choice, competitive equipment and service costs for WiMAX technology, devices and applications. Members of the WiMAX ecosystem formed the OPA in 2008. Current OPA members include Acer, Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion, Cisco, Clearwire, Huawei Technologies, Intel Corporation, and Samsung Electronics, as well as newly announced associate members Beceem, GCT Semiconductor, Sequans, and UQ Communications. The diversity of member companies demonstrates broad support throughout the entire 4G ecosystem – from semiconductor makers, to consumer device manufacturers, to network equipment companies, to service providers.
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What's New

On June 22, 2009, the Open Patent Alliance (OPA) issued a Call for Patents for any essential patents related to WiMAX, with the intention of creating a patent pool. Establishing this patent pool is an important step in the OPA’s plans to create a fair and transparent Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) licensing structure that will accelerate the global adoption of WiMAX, while simultaneously fostering broader choice and lower costs for WiMAX technology, devices and applications. This significantly lowers the “barriers to entry” for those companies wishing to develop innovative technologies using WiMAX and helps to ensure the successful and broad adoption of 4G wireless.

The OPA has selected Via Licensing to act as the administrator of the patent pool.

Parties interested in discussing the opportunity to participate in a WiMAX patent licensing program may send an inquiry to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . For complete submission information, interested parties should email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , specifying an interest in submitting a patent or patent application for consideration of essentiality to the implementation of WiMAX.