Patent News

MPEG LA Announces Effort to Facilitate HD DVD Patent License
May 9, 2007 – MPEG LA has issued a call for patents and patent applications that are essential to the HD DVD Standard in order to facilitate creation of a joint HD DVD patent license. More …
News categories: Digital TV, DVD, HD-DVD, Licensing, Patent

Microsoft mugged over VC-1 codec patent terms
Apr 16, 2007 – VC-1, after a flying start, has fallen back and pretty much these days the codec of choice is either VP6 from On2 Technologies for web video and H.264 for everything else, with no VC-1 in sight. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Licensing, Patent

Mobile TV is next IPR battleground
Apr 9, 2007 – Our source at Qualcomm was, the other day, defending his company’s mobile TV proposition – MediaFLO. He let slip, however, that Nokia might have patents on DVB-H that rival handset vendors have overlooked. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Mobile, Patent, Smart TV

MPEG LA Issues VC-1 Patent Portfolio License
Mar 15, 2007 – MPEG LA today announced the availability of the VC-1 Patent Portfolio License. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Licensing, Patent

Chinese STB makers, MPEG LA face off over patent fees
Mar 13, 2007 – Chinese makers of digital set-top boxes are on a collision course with MPEG-2 patent owners over unpaid royalties, setting the stage for what will likely be intense haggling in coming months. More …
News categories: China, Digital TV, Licensing, Patent, Set Top Box

THOMSON Joins Uldage Patent Pool for Japan Digital Broadcasting Standard
Mar 7, 2007 – ULDAGE Inc. announced today that THOMSON Licensing S.A.S (Thomson) has joined the patent pool for ARIB Standards making its essential patents license available through ULDAGE Inc.
News categories: Digital TV, ISDB-T, Japan, Licensing, Patent

Via Licensing Announces Joint Patent License for Interactive Television Services Using the DVB-MHP Standard
Feb 13, 2007 – Via Licensing Corporation is pleased to announce the availability of a worldwide joint license agreement for patents deemed essential to implement the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB®) Multimedia Home Platform 1.0 standard (MHP® 1.0).
News categories: Via Licensing, DVB-MHP, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, Licensing, Middleware, Patent

MPEG LA Sues Mintek Digital, Inc. for Breach of MPEG-2 License Agreement
Feb 1, 2007 – MPEG LA, LLC has announced that it has sued Mintek Digital for breach of its MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License with MPEG LA. The suit also names Jiangsu Digital Technology and Shinco Electronics Group, as responsible for Mintek's obligations.
News categories: MPEG LA, China, Digital TV, DVD, Licensing, Patent

DVB-S2 IPR Holders Announce Joint Licensing Program
Dec 15, 2006 – The DIRECTV Group (NYSE:DTV), RAI and ESA, the holders of key DVB-S2 intellectual property rights, have announced the fundamental terms of a comprehensive licensing offering under their combined patent rights for DVB-S2 standardized technology.
News categories: DIRECTV, RAI, European Space Agency, Digital TV, DVB-S2, Licensing, Patent, Satellite