Another Dolby HEVC EPO patent revoked

On February 29, 2024, the European Patent Office revoked all claims of EP 3694209 B1, currently owned by Dolby International AB. EP ‘209 generally relates to video coding techniques that use data hiding to decrease bandwidth. The patent is related to others that have been designated essential to the Access Advance (HEVC) pool. EP ’209 has also been identified as potentially essential to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified was represented by Harry Hutchinson and Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

ETRI HEVC patent revoked in EPO

On January 24, 2024, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 3767952. The EP ‘952 patent, owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), relates to an apparatus for encoding image data and an apparatus for decoding image data, where the encoding/decoding makes use of motion vector coding for image compression, particularly an inter prediction method. It is related to patents that have been designated essential to the Access Advance patent pool and has also been identified as potentially essential to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard.

Unified is represented by Harry Hutchinson and Owain Summers at HGF Law and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

Dolby HEVC/AV1 patent revoked in EPO

On January 17, 2024, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 3798988. The EP ‘988 patent is owned by Dolby International AB and is related to patents that have been declared essential to Access Advance and SISVEL’s AV1 patent pools.

Unified is represented by Harry Hutchinson and Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen.

Dolby VVC patent revoked in EPO

On November 30, 2023, the European Patent Office revoked 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 Harry Hutchinson and Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

GEVC HEVC patent revoked in EPO

On November 28, 2023, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 2805491, owned by GE Video Compression, LLC. The ‘491 patent is generally directed to video coding using parallel processing. It is related to patents that have been declared essential to Access Advance patent pool. This filing was a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified was represented by Harry Hutchinson and Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.