Category: Access Advance patent pools
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Dolby seeking SEP-based preliminary injunction against Roku as Munich I Regional Court outpaces UPC’s Munich LD by wide margin
Roku is coming under pressure in the Munich I Regional Court with a January 2026 trial date and a SEP-based preliminary injunction motion, but nothing has happened in the UPC.
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Via LA Bridge Summit to feature inter-pool administrator discussion: third edition in San Francisco (September 22-26)
Co-hosted by the UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Via Licensing Alliance’s third-ever Bridge Summit will be held at the Fairmont in San Francisco, and will include keynotes from Huawei’s Emil Zhang and Xiaomi’s Na Wei, as well as a panel discussion with fellow pool administrators Sisvel and Access Advance.
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ETRI files HEVC SEP lawsuit against Hisense with UPC shortly after suing Transsion over same patent
Korea’s ETRI is now enforcing the same HEVC patent against two different Chinese defendants: smartphone maker Transsion as well as TV maker Hisense.
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Access Advance extends early-bird period for video streaming patent license to September 30, 2025: service announcement
The early-bird period for implementers taking a license to Access Advance’s Video Distribution Pool has been extended to September 30.
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With UPC lawsuit against Transsion, Huawei joins fellow Access Advance licensors NEC, JVC, Sun Patent Trust in HEVC SEP enforcement
After settling with Philips over other standards and taking a Via LA pool license (its first pool license ever), Transsion could demonstrate that regional rates indeed facilitate license deals.
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Access Advance welcomes dismissal of Roku’s global FRAND determination claim, draws parallels to Tesla’s UK complaint against Avanci
Roku’s global FRAND determination claim was dismissed due to the overwhelming presence of foreign patents, which would apply to virtually any patent pool.
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Access Advance, Via LA position multimedia patent pools for further growth with price stability offer, regionalization for more standards
Via LA extends the concept of regional rates to HEVC/VVC. Access Advance invites implementers with an offer to secure license fees until 2030 and multi-codec incentive.
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Federal judge throws out Roku’s FRAND and non-infringement DJ complaint against Dolby, Sun Patent Trust in Access Advance context
Roku is facing patent infringement lawsuits by Access Advance licensors and tried to attack the pool administrator with a U.S. antitrust case, which has now been thrown out.
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Transsion facing Brazilian HEVC SEP lawsuits by NEC and JVC, UPC lawsuits by NEC and Sun Patent Trust: all three are Access Advance licensors
NEC is suing Transsion in the UPC and Brazil, Sun Patent Trust only in the UPC and JVC only in Brazil (all of that based on presently known cases).
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Access Advance’s video streaming patent pool has more than 30 licensors, 4 of whom (such as ByteDance, Tencent) are also licensees
Context: Earlier this year we reported on a surprising move by Access Advance. After years of focusing its licensing efforts on product makers rather than streamers, the Boston-based pool administrator announced its Video Distribution Pool (VDP) (January 16, 2025 ip fray article). What’s new: Today, Access Advance published a list of 31 licensors, only two…