Context: Dolby first sued Snap in the District of Delaware on March 23, 2026. Four patents related to High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265) were asserted in that case. Dolby later filed two separate cases in Brazil: one over HEVC patents and one over AV1 patents (March 24, 2026, ip fray article). A Brazilian judge previously gave Snap five days to justify its use of Dolby’s AV1 patents, with an injunction looming (April 16, 2026, ip fray article). Dolby has made license offers to Snap through the Access Advance Video Distribution Patent (VDP) pool, which includes the patents-in-suit. Snap previously took an HEVC Advance pool license for its hardware products but remains unlicensed for its Snapchat backend services.
What’s new: Dolby filed a third complaint in Brazil on June 8, 2026, asserting a new batch of HEVC patents against Snap. The case was assigned by random draw to the 3rd IP Court in Rio de Janeiro, before Judge Maria Izabel Santanna. She is the same judge handling the previously filed Dolby HEVC complaint. On the same day, Dolby filed a First Amended Complaint in the Delaware case (case No. 1:26-cv-00317-JLH), adding five more patents to the original four. The amended complaint also added Dolby International AB as a co-plaintiff and a tenth count for declaratory judgment on reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) licensing compliance.
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Court and counsel
Brazil
3rd Business Court of Rio de Janeiro: Judge Maria Izabel Santanna.
Dolby is being represented in Brazil by a team at Licks Attorneys (ip fray firm profile with numerous SEP achievements): Rodolfo Barreto, Bruno Falque, Amanda Terra, and Élcio de Lacerda.
United States
United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Judge Jennifer L. Hall.
Counsel for Dolby: McKool Smith’s Kevin Schubert, Warren Lipschitz, Mitch Verboncoeur, Robert Burns, Christopher McNett, and Greg Saltz; as well as Farnan LLP’s Brian E. Farnan and Michael J. Farnan.