Category: Patent Pools
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BREAKING: Avanci signed up four Chinese automakers as licensees between early April and now; 11 Chinese licensees in total, 17 contracts
Since the last such announcement on March 31, four more Chinese automakers have taken an Avanci license. Geely is undoubtedly one of them.
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Vote to replace Access Advance with Sisvel as VCL HEVC/VVC pool administrator fails: less than 1/3 of licensors in favor
A vote reportedly initiated by Harold Barrault, Vice President and Head of Patent Licensing at Orange (a major pool licensor), has failed to reach the necessary majority to put Sisvel in charge of Access Advance’s VCL HEVC/VVC patent pool.
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Eyeing the AI data center boom, Via Licensing Alliance unveils new NAND pool, issues call for patents
Via has announced a new semiconductor-related licensing program, this time for NAND memory technology.
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Ibex sues Disney and Snap in Brazil as streaming patent disputes escalate
Ibex has launched separate patent actions in Brazil against Disney and Snap relating to video technologies, adding to growing litigation pressure on video streamers across multiple jurisdictions.
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Geely takes Avanci license: combination of three near-simultaneous events leaves no room for reasonable doubt
Statistically, the near-simultaneous settlement of cases involving more than one licensor of a given patent pool means a pool license has been taken in all likelihood..
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BREAKING: Nokia and Geely settled cellular SEP dispute; unknown if pool or bilateral license
A trial (with the possibility of a subsequent bench ruling) was scheduled for today, but canceled on short notice.
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Via Licensing Alliance Voice Codec pool continues to grow with addition of new licensors, licensee
Via launched the pool covering EVS and IVAS speech-coding standards in December 2024.
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ASUS settles global patent litigation with Wilus, Huawei, Philips: takes Sisvel Wi-Fi Multimode pool license
ASUS has become the latest licensee to sign up to Sisvel’s Wi-Fi Multimode standard-essential patent program, days before a potential bench ruling from the Munich I Regional Court in an SEP dispute with Sisvel licensor Philips.
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Via licensor Philips settles Qi dispute with Belkin; Renault takes patent license from Broadcom
Based on decisions by the UPC to close cases, two significant SEP disputes have apparently been settled: Philips-Belkin (a win for Via in all likelihood) and Broadcom-Renault.