{"id":2255,"date":"2025-04-07T06:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2025-04-07T09:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T09:26:47","slug":"via-la-licensors-mk-gensquare-llc-tagivan-ii-suing-microsoft-over-hevc-seps-in-dusseldorf-court-confirms-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/via-la-licensors-mk-gensquare-llc-tagivan-ii-suing-microsoft-over-hevc-seps-in-dusseldorf-court-confirms-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Via LA licensors M&amp;K, Gensquare LLC, Tagivan II suing Microsoft over HEVC SEPs in Dusseldorf: court confirms details"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-width:1px\">\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Context: <\/strong>Currently, two major pool administrators manage programs licensing standard-essential patents (SEPs) for High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), a central standard for high-resolution video (such as 4K): <a href=\"https:\/\/accessadvance.com\/licensing-programs\/hevc-advance\/\">Access Advance<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.via-la.com\/licensing-2\/hevc\/\">Via Licensing Alliance<\/a>. In December, it was revealed by D\u00fcsseldorf-based patent firm Cohausz &amp; Florack that, together with litigation firm Krieger Mes, Via LA licensors had filed \u201cpatent infringement suits against Microsoft based on HEVC SEPs [standard-essential patents]\u201d toward the end of November <a href=\"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/via-la-licensors-suing-microsoft-in-germany-and-or-upc-over-hevc-video-codec-patents\/\">December 20, 2024 <strong>ip fray<\/strong> article<\/a>). Microsoft is both a licensee and a licensor in Access Advance\u2019s HEVC pool.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"mepr_error\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center\">To Read The Full Story<\/h3>\n<div class=\"button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/staging\/5602\/login\/\">Sign In<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cont-reading-para-wrap\">\n<p>Continue reading your article with a Membership<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button contact-admin-error-btn\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/staging\/5602\/contact\/\">Contact us<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The licensors are enforcing seven standard-essential patents that Microsoft has used in some of its most popular products, including Windows 10, Windows 11, its Surface tablets, and its Xbox consoles, they allege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,78,89,146,12,20,15,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advance-patent-pools","category-germany","category-microsoft","category-multimedia","category-patent-litigation","category-patent-pools","category-standard-essential-patents","category-via-la-patent-pools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}