Category: Multimedia
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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.
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Brazilian PIs and bad-faith litigation sanctions hit Hisense; newly discovered European video lawsuits against Hisense, Disney, Rakuten, DAZN
Preliminary injunctions, a fine for bad-faith litigation, multiple new video patent lawsuits in the Unified Patent Court and Munich I Regional Court: the heat is on.
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OPPO fires back at ASUS in China: files first-known VVC SEP suit
OPPO has sued ASUS over the alleged infringement of several of its Versatile Video Coding-related SEPs in the Shanghai IP Court, after the defendant brought its own wireless patent infringement claims in the Munich I Regional Court and UPC.
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BREAKING: Access Advance acquires Via Licensing Alliance’s HEVC, VVC patent pools
The pools will initially continue running independently, but the goal is to have one combined program – to eliminate market fragmentation – by this time next year, Access Advance’s CEO, Peter Moller, told ip fray.
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Netflix now has exclusive merger talks with Warner Bros. Discovery despite Trump-aligned Paramount having raised antitrust concerns
Given the current wave of patent enforcement actions against video streamers, including Nokia v. Warner Bros. Discovery, we exceptionally share some thoughts on a proposed streaming merger with upstream implications for the video patent licensing market.
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BREAKING: Nokia acquires video codec patent portfolio from LG Electronics
Nokia has acquired nearly 300 video patents covering coding and encoding technologies from LG Electronics, according to USPTO assignment records.
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Nokia offered non-proliferation agreement centered around mutual notices to Warner Bros., Paramount; UK judge considers it reasonable
The article also contains an unofficial English translation of the redacted version of the latest InterDigital v. Amazon decision from Munich.
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UK judge says injunction wouldn’t affect foreign judges, InterDigital wasn’t restricted from raising arguments in UPC — yet seeks to prevent enforcement of UPC order
Mr Justice Meade and Amazon are still seeking to prevent InterDigital from enforcing a UPC injunction. In some ways there is de-escalation, but the situation remains problematic.
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Access Advance announces growth of HEVC and VVC pools, renewals; new information about SEP PI (Dolby v. Roku) available now
Access Advance has announced major growth in its HEVC and VVC patent pools, and has publicly confirmed that Dolby won a preliminary injunction against Roku.