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Financial Times: Everybody Loses In The Wireless Patent Wars
In recent years, patent owners and product makers have become trapped in an endless…
Read MoreVia Licensing Driving Momentum into the New Year
SAN FRANCISCO, January 17, 2018— Via Licensing, the leading provider of innovative intellectual property solutions, rounded out one of the most successful years in the company’s history in 2017. Fueling Via’s growth is the expansion of its long-term evolution (LTE) patent pool. In addition to adding dozens of new licensees, Via pulled in several new…
Read MoreIAM: Top Patent Market Players and IAM’s Editorial Team Make Their Predictions for 2018
In a patent world as uncertain as this one – characterised by turmoil in the US, a lack of clarity over the UPC in Europe and China’s inexorable rise as an IP super power – predicting what will happen in 2018 seems almost destined to end in failure. After all, no one would have told…
Read MoreMPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to ATSC 3.0
Call for Patents is First Step in Creating a One-Stop License (DENVER, CO, US – 3 August 2017) – World licensing leader MPEG LA, LLC announced today a call for patents essential to ATSC 3.0 standards in order to facilitate, for the convenience of the market, creation of a joint license to the intellectual property…
Read MoreVia Licensing and Lenovo Jointly Announce LTE Collaboration
Lenovo, a global leader in consumer, commercial and enterprise technology, has entered into a multi-year agreement with Via Licensing to join as both a licensee and a licensor of the LTE Patent Pool.
Read MoreThe Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Among Those Participating MPEG LA’s CRISPR-CAS9 Joint Licensing Facilitation
Patent Submissions Continue to be Accepted (DENVER, CO, US – 10 July 2017) – World licensing leader MPEG LA, LLC is pleased to announce that key CRISPR patent holders have submitted patents in response to MPEG LA’s call to participate in the creation of a global CRISPR-Cas9 Joint Licensing Platform and that patent submissions continue to be…
Read MoreMPEG LA Introduces License for EVS
EVS Delivers Unprecedented Voice and Music Quality to Mobile Phones and Other Devices (DENVER, CO, US – 28 June 2017) – MPEG LA, LLC today announced the availability of the EVS Patent Portfolio License providing efficient access to technologies underlying the EVS (Enhanced Voice Services) standard. Designed to operate ubiquitously over packet-switched mobile and fixed-line…
Read MoreKristin Neuman to Speak About MPEG LA’S CRISPR Pool License at NewYorkBIO and AIPLA
(DENVER, CO, US – 10 May 2017) – World licensing leader MPEG LA, LLC today announced that Kristin Neuman, MPEG LA’s Executive Director of Biotechnology Licensing, will speak at New York BIO’s Annual Meeting on May 11 in New York City and at the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Spring Meeting on May 17…
Read MoreMPEG LA Invites CRISPR-CAS9 Patents to be Pooled in a One-Stop License
Accessibility to a multi-user market will maximize CRISPR’s life-enhancing potential (DENVER, CO, US – 25 April 2017) – World licensing leader MPEG LA, LLC today invited holders of CRISPR-Cas9 patents to participate in the creation of a global CRISPR-Cas9 Joint Licensing Platform that will make their groundbreaking technologies widely accessible. “Pooling the foundational CRISPR patent…
Read MoreHUAWEI SUED FOR AVC PATENT INFRINGEMENT
(DENVER, CO, US – 15 February 2017) – MPEG LA, LLC today announced that several patent owners in MPEG LA’s AVC Patent Portfolio License have filed patent enforcement actions in the Landgericht Düsseldorf, Germany against Huawei Technologies Deutschland GmbH (“Huawei”) for infringing patents essential to the AVC/H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) digital video coding standard used…
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