On July 7, 2025, the EPO Board of Appeals confirmed the decision to revoke all claims of EP 3675491, owned by Dolby International AB. EP ‘491 generally relates to video coding techniques that use data hiding to decrease bandwidth. The patent is related to patents that are designated essential to the Access Advance patent pool and has also been identified as potentially essential to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard.
Unified was represented by Dr. Andrew McGettrick and Dr. Susan Keston at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.