Category: Via Licensing Alliance patent pools
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Via annual Bridge Summit to focus on AI licensing
Via Licensing Alliance’s fourth-ever annual Bridge Summit, due to take place next week, will feature AI infrastructure and data center licensing discussions throughout its conference, as well as licensor meetings dedicated to its newly launched DRAM pool.
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Dolby files first-ever patent infringement dispute related to Via Voice Codec Pool
Dolby has sued UK device maker Nothing Technology over a standard-essential patent related to EVS technologies, marking the first action related to Via’s Voice Codec Pool.
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HMD stops selling its smartphones in Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands after Fraunhofer’s UPC injunctions
The overlap between the countries in which HMD removed the entire smartphone category from its web offerings and the recent UPC injunctions leaves no room for any other plausible explanation.
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Via Licensing Alliance signs MPEG LA veteran as General Counsel
Tony Piotrowski also held past roles in the IP teams at Nokia and Philips.
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Via signs founding licensors to data center DRAM program, announces new cloud media pool for genAI
The new program will offer a comprehensive license for the “back-end” of AI-generated media, covering multiple standards including AAC, AVC, and Opus.
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Honor acquires LG video and image coding portfolio, expands its presence in SEP landscape
The Chinese mobile device brand has also recently become a licensor to Avanci’s vehicle cellular programs, and a licensee to Access Advance’s VVC pool.
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OPINION: Global licensing is seeking a better middle ground
An opinion piece by Patrick Zhang, Vice President, Licensing and Commercial Strategy, Via Licensing Alliance.
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USPTO Director Squires to deliver keynote speech at Via Licensing Alliance’s marquee Bridge Summit this October
The Via Bridge Summit is taking place in San Francisco, October 6-9, 2026.
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Rio de Janeiro Court of Appeal unanimously upholds Panasonic’s AAC patent injunction against HMD, rejects bilateral licensing demand
Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld a preliminary injunction Panasonic won against HMD over an AAC patent, rejecting the claim that FRAND requires a separate bilateral licensing offer.
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WIPO expands pool-verified SEP data with Via Licensing Alliance partnership
It builds on a previously announced partnership with Sisvel to supplement PATENTSCOPE’s content on declared SEPs with data verified by pool operators.