Via Licensing Alliance (Via LA) has announced the extension of its HEVC Program to include the VVC standard (also known as H.266 and MPEG-I Part 3). The move brings together the two major video coding technologies into the same patent pool for the first time. It also means TCL, one of the world’s best-selling consumer…
When it comes to mergers and acquisitions in the streaming industry and M&E marketplace in 2023 and an accounting of the year s most consequential deals, it makes the most sense to open at the close: Disney s early-November announcement that it would fully subsume Hulu into its empire with a buyout that completed an acquisition initiated in pre-pandemic 2019.
Via Licensing shook the MPEG licensing world in May 2023 when it acquired MPEG LA to form the Via LA juggernaut. And how is that deal shaking out now, six months on, as licensors and patent holders alike survey the landscape? Sisvel Group s Mattia Fogliacco and patent attorney Robert J.L. Moore of Moore IP Solutions discuss the implications in this clip from November 2023 s Streaming Media Connect.
Via Licensing shook the MPEG licensing world in May 2023 when it acquired MPEG LA to form the Via LA juggernaut. And how is that deal shaking out now, six months on, as licensors and patent holders alike survey the landscape? Sisvel Group s Mattia Fogliacco and patent attorney Robert J.L. Moore of Moore IP Solutions discuss the implications in this clip from November 2023 s Streaming Media Connect.
The winners of this year’s Asia IP Elite Awards, which recognise the region’s leading IP contributors across 11 different categories, were announced at a gala dinner in Tokyo on Wednesday night