Organisation: BBC

Bitcoin not Craig Wright’s invention, declares UK High Court following dramatic trial

Here’s what yesterday’s finding means for the Bitcoin IP landscape

15 March 2024

VVC deployment is starting, but there’s a long process ahead

Application standards approved in 2023 have locked in the VVC standard and three chipmakers are supporting the video codec, but market saturation is many years away

12 March 2024

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

Video codec technologies: relevance, implementation and licensing uncertainty

Igor Nikolic, of the European University Institute, takes a close look at the video code landscape and implications for streaming services providers

12 July 2023

Two VVC pools up and running, but several big players remain on the sidelines

MPEG-LA announces a new pool with 11 initial licensors and royalty rates similar to its HEVC offering

28 January 2022

Everything you wanted to know about patent rescue in Europe, but were too afraid to ask

The Long Read: Restoring inadvertently lapsed European rights need not be the nightmare scenario that many imagine. Carpmaels & Ransford’s Simon Keevey-Kothari lays out the strategic planning and solid arguments needed to get crucial IP smoothly reinstated

04 August 2021

Huawei scoops up indoor location-tracking patents from British start-up

Edinburgh University spin-out Sensewhere had received investment from government fund Scottish Enterprise and Tencent, but the Chinese networking giant now owns all of its US patents. The transaction comes after Huawei lost access to Google Maps and other Android services

14 October 2020

Vietnam's 5G ambitions put IP environment in focus

A state-run telecom's claim to be producing its own networking gear is the latest indication that there are opportunities for IP-based collaboration in a fast growing tech market

21 January 2020

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