Category: Patents
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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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VideoLabs broadens licensing offer after acquiring patents from Ericsson and Texas Instruments
The patent licensing company today announced the assignment of hundreds of patents from Ericsson relevant to networking and cybersecurity.
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Part 1: Access Advance’s VDP pool is rapidly gaining momentum
In this guest contribution, Access Advance reports on its latest progress and explains the structure of the VDP Pool.
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UPC Munich LD will assess implementer willingness ahead of FRAND license disclosure in InterDigital v. TCL
The UPC’s Munich LD has declined to order InterDigital to disclose comparable license agreements while TCL’s willingness to take a FRAND license remains disputed, potentially allowing the court to resolve the FRAND defense without examining those agreements.
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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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Canon, Huawei, Oppo, and Sony team up with Tulip to license 125,000+ imaging patents
Tulip has become a recognized name in the patent monetization industry thanks to its battery licensing program with LGES and Panasonic.
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Sol IP sues AGCO over 4G SEPs in Munich: enforcement now hits second farm equipment maker
Sol IP has sued AGCO in Munich over the same two 4G SEPs it used against BYD, extending a pattern of cellular SEP campaigns that has already worked its way through cars and trucks.
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China’s top court reinforces human-inventor rule, scope of human-contribution standard likely to be tested in future litigation
China’s top court has reissued the rule that AI itself cannot be an inventor and expressly requires a natural person to make a creative contribution to an AI-assisted invention, bringing an approach already taken by the CNIPA into the judicial framework.
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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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Simultaneous Great Wall Motor settlements suggest Avanci license: who are the other 6 licensees among China’s top 10 car exporters?
IP Bridge and Sun Patent Trust withdrew their Brazilian cases against GWM on the same day. Previously, Geely and BYD settled. We’ve looked into who the other Chinese Avanci licensees might be.