Home
Media & Entertainment

Sector: Media & Entertainment

Lenovo, Amazon take licences to HEVC pool by Access Advance

Dell is another new licensee while on the patent holder side, BlackBerry has joined HEVC Advance. Does it show HEVC is spreading and the pool landscape has consolidated?

X Corp sues patent licensor Adeia after being accused of not paying its royalty bill

X alleges its products and services don't infringe four media-related patents, but Adeia maintains it is owed more than $2.25 million

Using data to drive diversity at Spotify

The digital audio giant has been rigorously analysing the numbers to understand women inventorship

Latest content

Adeia CEO on licensing success and video streaming expectations

In the second part of our exclusive interview, Paul Davis discusses how to convince licensees to agree to reveal their names and communicating with investors

16 October 2023

Adeia CEO dishes about firm’s first year of operations after Xperi spin-out

In an exclusive interview, Paul Davis reflects on growing his staff by 25%, working to break into greenfield licensing markets, striking major renewals with Samsung, and more

13 October 2023

Netflix is facing injunctions in Germany and Brazil, but what of its US patent litigation record?

As legal pressure mounts internationally against the video streaming service, we did a deep dive on Docket Navigator to see Netflix’s patent litigation history in the US

09 October 2023

Inventor firm’s $339M windfall from Google tops ranking of US patent jury verdicts in Q3

Touchstream Technologies’ victory is one of 17 jury verdicts that issued in 2023’s third quarter and 59% of them favoured patentees – but Q3 damages values dropped compared to Q1 and Q2

02 October 2023

TCL signs licence with Via LA’s ATSC 3.0 broadcasting patent pool

Via LA’s pool, which has 14 licensors, used to offer a rate of $2.75 per unit but has dropped it to $0.30 with an early-bird discount

18 September 2023

Recent high-profile AV1 and VP9 assertions are not the first in US courts, data reveals

Docket Navigator research shows seven US district court cases related to new video codec AV1, and 56 cases mentioning older version VP9, showing the holes in the codecs' royalty-free licensing pledges

11 September 2023

InterDigital-Lenovo cases on AV1 codec come in wake of abandoned AOMedia antitrust investigation

European regulators dropped an investigation into the Alliance for Open Media, which developed the AV1 video codec to be royalty-free

08 September 2023

InterDigital files new US suits against Lenovo – this time over proprietary AV1 and VP9 video codecs

Unlike pending suits in the UK, Germany, China and the US, InterDigital has now asserted rights which are not standard essential and need not follow FRAND licensing obligations

06 September 2023

Avanci signs up first new Broadcast licensees

The company’s efforts to expand beyond connected vehicle licensing gain traction

23 August 2023

Meet Meta’s patents team, in which diversity strengthens strategy, acquisitions and licensing

Through a series of exclusive interviews with IAM, Meta’s patents, licensing and open-source leaders take us inside their patent strategy

23 August 2023

Unlock unlimited access to all IAM content