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1 History  





2 H.265/HEVC licensors  





3 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC licensors  





4 VC-1 licensors  





5 References  





6 External links  














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Via Licensing Alliance
Company typePrivate
IndustryLicensing administration
Founded2023; 1 year ago (2023)
Headquarters ,
US

Key people

Heath Hoglund
ProductsPatent licenses
Websitewww.via-la.com

Via-LA is an American company based in San Francisco, California that licenses patent pools covering essential patents.

Via Licensing Corp acquired MPEG-LA in April 2023 and formed a new patent pool administration company called Via Licensing Alliance.[1]

History

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In April 2023, in what is thought to be the first time that two pool administrators have merged into one, Via Licensing Corp acquired MPEG-LA and formed a new patent pool administrator called Via Licensing Alliance. Via President Heath Hoglund will serve as president of the new company. MPEG-LA CEO Larry Horn will serve as a Via-LA advisor.[2]

H.265/HEVC licensors

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See also: Access Advance

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

The following organizations hold one or more patents in the Via-LA H.265/HEVC patent pool, this list does not include patents that have been removed from the patent pool nor does it include patents from other patent pools such as Access Advance.

H.265/HEVC patent holders (as of November 23 2023)
Organization Active patents Expired patents Total patents
GENSQUARE LLC 1469 30 1499
Canon Inc. 1011 59 1070
M&K Holdings 1055 1 1056
KT Corp 595 0 595
Tagivan II 311 48 359
Fujitsu 148 1 149
Apple 72 53 125
IdeaHub Inc. 120 0 120
Maxell 64 10 74
Orange S.A. 58 5 63
IBEX PT Holdings 62 0 62
Vidyo 43 0 43
HUMAX Holdings 34 0 34
Siemens 10 19 29
Industry-Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University 27 2 29
B1 Institute of Image Technology, INC 26 0 26
British Broadcasting Corporation 22 0 22
Funai Electric Co., Ltd 17 0 17
The Trustees of Columbia UniversityinNew York City 0 16 16
Hangzhou Boyun Technology Co., Ltd 12 0 12
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology 11 0 11
SungKyunKwan University Research & Business Foundation 11 0 11
Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) 7 0 7
Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd 0 6 6
SK Planet 5 0 5
Sky Media Tech, Inc. 4 0 4
Reef LLC 3 0 3
Digital Insights Inc. 2 0 2
Korea Electronics Technology Institute 1 0 1
Alpha Digitech 1 0 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 1 0 1
ARRIS Enterprises, LLC, a CommScope Company 1 0 1
Newracom Inc. (Newratek) 0 1 1
Total (All Manufacturers) 5203 251 5454

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC licensors

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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

The following organizations hold one or more patents in Via-LA's H.264/AVC patent pool.

H.264/AVC patent holders (as of July 2 2024)
Organization Active patents Expired patents Total patents
Dolby Laboratories 823 798 1617
Panasonic Corporation 285 1313 1598
Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 45 1253 1298
LG Electronics 67 933 1000
Toshiba 7 388 395
Fraunhofer Society 168 90 258
Microsoft 13 228 241
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (including NTT Docomo) 15 223 238
Sony 4 151 155
Google 4 136 140
GE Video Compression 0 136 136
Fujitsu 0 106 106
Mitsubishi Electric 3 97 100
Tagivan II LLC 7 75 82
B1 Institute of Image Technology 68 0 68
Samsung Electronics 3 60 63
Maxell 21 35 56
Siemens 11 40 51
Koninklijke Philips N.V 3 44 47
Vidyo 41 2 43
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of Korea 8 27 35
Ericsson 1 34 35
The Trustees of Columbia UniversityinNew York City 0 26 26
Robert Bosch GmbH 1 22 23
Polycom 1 20 21
Orange S.A. 13 7 20
JVC Kenwood 7 7 14
Apple 2 7 9
Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. 0 6 6
NEC 0 6 6
Sharp Corporation 5 0 5
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) 1 4 5
Cisco Systems 1 3 4
ZTE Corporation 0 2 2
Cisco Technology 1 0 1
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. 0 1 1
Hewlett-Packard Company 0 1 1
Newracom, Inc. 0 1 1
Vestel Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. 1 0 1
Total (All Manufacturers) 1630 6282 7908

VC-1 licensors

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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

The following organizations hold one or more patents in the Via-LA VC-1 patent pool.

VC-1 patent holders (as of July 2 2024)
Organization Active patents Expired patents Total patents
Microsoft 264 208 472
Panasonic 5 117 122
LG Electronics 2 94 96
Samsung Electronics 4 92 96
Dolby Laboratories 8 96 104
Philips 0 77 77
Hitachi 0 60 60
Mitsubishi Electric 0 52 52
Sony 0 28 28
JVC Kenwood 0 25 25
Toshiba 0 21 21
Fujitsu 0 20 20
Telenor 0 19 19
Siemens 2 16 18
AT&T Intellectual Property 0 16 16
Sun Patent Trust 0 12 12
Sharp Corporation 0 8 8
Orange S.A. 0 7 7
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone 0 4 4
Pantech 0 4 4
ZTE 0 1 1
Total (All Manufacturers) 286 976 1262

References

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  1. ^ Ozer, Jan (2023-05-08), Via LA’s Heath Hoglund Talks MPEG LA/Via Licensing Patent Pool Merger, StreamingMedia.com
  • ^ Morris, Angela (2023-05-02), Via Licensing acquires MPEG LA in patent pool merger first, IAM
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