Category: Patent Pools
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Access Advance reports 100% HEVC patent agreement renewal rate: Google among licensees that opted to extend
Access Advance renewed 100% of its licensing agreements with current licensees of its HEVC pool – over 120 of them – including with major tech players such as Google and Huawei, and has renamed the HEVC/VVC patent pool it acquired from Via Licensing Alliance to VCL Advance.
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Via Licensing Alliance’s memory technology patent pool now conducting formation meetings, with notable interest from licensees, licensors in Asia
As the first of its semiconductor pools moves forward, Via Licensing Alliance will soon introduce a pool focused on interconnect technologies, Via’s vice president of program management Willy Chang told ip fray in an interview.
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Munich Regional Court Judge Dr. Schoen on incoming new judge, cross-border injunctions, FRAND calculations in Wilus v. ASUS
The incoming Presiding Judge over the 21st Civil Chamber, who will replace Judge Dr. Georg Werner, has been chosen and has a “patent-positive approach”, Judge Dr. Oliver Schoen of the Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chamber told attendees of the 12th annual IP and Competition Forum in Oxford today.
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Access Advance comments on Chinese dispute with video surveillance equipment maker Dahua, Supreme Court ruling on FRAND pool rate jurisdiction
Judicial FRAND determinations concerning patent pool rates raise various issues. Pool administrators normally do not enjoy price-setting flexibility.
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OPPO’s partnership with Access Advance becomes even more multi-faceted as it takes VVC license, gets MCBA benefits, but for now reserves all VVC enforcement rights
OPPO is asserting a VVC patent against ASUS in China and not (for now) a licensor of VVC Advance.
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Roku takes HEVC Advance license: court filings in Brazil, UPC; UPDATE: Advance confirms both device and streaming license
A Brazilian court document and a flurry of non-public UPC filings pointed to a settlement, which was subsequently confirmed.
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BREAKING: Heath Hoglund, who left Via last month, joins Sisvel as Chief IP Officer
This is Sisvel’s highest-profile external hire.
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Tesla should learn from Amazon-InterDigital, take an Avanci 5G license: even if its long-shot UKSC appeal succeeded, it wouldn’t help
For cross-jurisdictional reasons, Tesla should give up on its UK case against Avanci and InterDigital, in which it lost the first two rounds.
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Hisense threatened legal action against ip fray over timing of conclusion of Access Advance license agreement
We are always happy to make corrections or additions to articles if they are factually warranted. We do that for our readers, and we want to treat everyone fairly. Threats are counterproductive.
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BREAKING: Within hours of Brazilian injunction, HEVC Advance lists Hisense as licensee
The Brazilian court gave Hisense only 48 hours to comply. and a preliminary injunction based on a report by a court-appointed expert has teeth.