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oibaf
13th May 2024, 09:56
Unified Patents has list of patents in litigation by company: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/ptab/caselist?patent_owners=Nokia+Technologies+OY
Which helpfully lists the patents in question with links.
Thanks.
I can see only US patents there, so the original assertion "it looks like there are only two patents still active in EU" still apply.
Spyros
2nd August 2024, 10:33
New patent list (https://web.archive.org/web/20240802092610/https://www.via-la.com/wp-content/uploads/Final-August-1-2024-AVC-Attachment-1.pdf), but almost no changes at all, same number of pages with expired and unexpired patents. And unfortunately, only 6 patents will expire in the next 3 months.
Oh, well. Let's hope November's list will be more exciting. After all, it will be 20 years next spring since the introduction of the High profiles.
FranceBB
3rd August 2024, 19:15
Really? 20 years already? I forgot it was 2004. Time flies...
oibaf
3rd August 2024, 19:39
New patent list (https://web.archive.org/web/20240802092610/https://www.via-la.com/wp-content/uploads/Final-August-1-2024-AVC-Attachment-1.pdf), but almost no changes at all, same number of pages with expired and unexpired patents. And unfortunately, only 6 patents will expire in the next 3 months.
Oh, well. Let's hope November's list will be more exciting. After all, it will be 20 years next spring since the introduction of the High profiles.
There are also a bunch of patents added. Here is the diff against previous list:
+AU 2023214310
+AU 2023214311
+AU 2023214313
+AU 2023214314
+AU 2023214315
+AU 2023285711
+CA 3,187,271
-CN 100531396 - Exp. Jul 21, 2024
-CN 110024407B
+CN 110024407
+CN 114979647
+CN 114979648
+CN 114979650
+CN 115037918
+CN 115037919
+CN 115037939
+CN 115150619
+CN 115150630
+CN 116668696
+CN 117478882
+DE (EP 2,630,800)
+GB (EP 2,630,800)
+HK 40089890
+HK 40089891
+HK 40090142
+ID P000092070
+IL 305702
+IN 532324
+IN 532329
+IN 532335
+IN 532499
+IN 541566
+IN 541570
+IN 541691
+IN 541693
-JP 4,241,559
-JP 4,361,435 - Exp. Jul 23, 2024
+JP 4,241,559 - Exp. Sep 27, 2024
-JP 4,643,447 - Exp. Jul 22, 2024
+KH /GP/00082 SG
-KR 10-0908422 - Exp. Jul 22, 2024
+KR 2,655,945
+KR 2,656,330
+KR 2,672,149
-KR 612,849 - Exp. Jul 13, 2024
-MX 393,311
+MX 393311
-MX 411,624
+MX 411618
+MX 411624
+MX 413083
-MY 145597 - Exp. May 13, 2024
+NG F/P/2022/156
+NG F/P/2022/159
+SG 10202400240V
-TH 35577 - Exp. May 11, 2024
-TW I258992 - Exp. Jul 22, 2024
+TW I850969
+US 10,038,916
+US 11,962,804
+US 11,973,980
+US 11,979,588
+US 11,979,589
+US 11,985,349
+US 11,991,339
+US 12,003,741
+US 12,015,793
+US 12,028,555
+US 12,034,972
-US 7,162,094 - Exp. May 20, 2024
-US 7,209,520
-US 7,227,901 - Exp. May 30, 2024
-US 7,239,662 - Exp. May 18, 2024
+US 7,209,520 - Exp. Sep 2, 2024
-US 7,639,742
+US 7,639,742 - Exp. Oct 19, 2024
-US 7,664,180
-US 7,664,182 - Exp. Jul 12, 2024
+US 7,664,180 - Exp. Oct 11, 2024
-US 7,839,931
+US 7,839,931 - Exp. Sep 26, 2024
-US 8,036,276 - Exp. Jul 24, 2024
-US 8,107,533 - Exp. Jun 16, 2024
-US 8,204,117
+US 8,204,117 - Exp. Oct 29, 2024
-US 8,213,517 - Exp. Jun 16, 2024
-US 8,243,808 - Exp. Jun 21, 2024
-US 8,243,809 - Exp. Jun 8, 2024
-US 8,660,185 - Exp. Jul 21, 2024
-US 9,124,862 - Exp. May 26, 2024
-US 9,374,590 - Exp. May 10, 2024
+US 9,774,882
filler56789
4th August 2024, 06:48
Really? 20 years already? I forgot it was 2004. Time flies...
Yes, and the older we get, the faster time flies -_-
I still remember I occasionaly played around with Ateme's encavc.exe beta :-|
benwaggoner
8th August 2024, 21:21
There are also a bunch of patents added. Here is the diff against previous list:
Wow, asserting new (old) patents at such a late date is surprising.
kurkosdr
14th August 2024, 19:58
There are also a bunch of patents added. Here is the diff against previous list:
[...diff here...]
You forgot to filter for "Exp.", so some of the "added" patents in your list are duplicates of existing ones:
-JP 4,241,559
+JP 4,241,559 - Exp. Sep 27, 2024
-US 7,209,520
+US 7,209,520 - Exp. Sep 2, 2024
-US 7,639,742
+US 7,639,742 - Exp. Oct 19, 2024
-US 7,664,180
+US 7,664,180 - Exp. Oct 11, 2024
-US 7,839,931
+US 7,839,931 - Exp. Sep 26, 2024
-US 8,204,117
+US 8,204,117 - Exp. Oct 29, 2024
Here a list of only the added ones:
+AU 2023214310
+AU 2023214311
+AU 2023214313
+AU 2023214314
+AU 2023214315
+AU 2023285711
+CA 3,187,271
+CN 110024407
+CN 114979647
+CN 114979648
+CN 114979650
+CN 115037918
+CN 115037919
+CN 115037939
+CN 115150619
+CN 115150630
+CN 116668696
+CN 117478882
+DE (EP 2,630,800)
+GB (EP 2,630,800)
+HK 40089890
+HK 40089891
+HK 40090142
+ID P000092070
+IL 305702
+IN 532324
+IN 532329
+IN 532335
+IN 532499
+IN 541566
+IN 541570
+IN 541691
+IN 541693
+KH /GP/00082 SG
+KR 2,655,945
+KR 2,656,330
+KR 2,672,149
+MX 393311
+MX 411618
+MX 411624
+MX 413083
+NG F/P/2022/156
+NG F/P/2022/159
+SG 10202400240V
+TW I850969
+US 10,038,916
+US 11,962,804
+US 11,973,980
+US 11,979,588
+US 11,979,589
+US 11,985,349
+US 11,991,339
+US 12,003,741
+US 12,015,793
+US 12,028,555
+US 12,034,972
+US 9,774,882
kurkosdr
14th August 2024, 20:38
Wow, asserting new (old) patents at such a late date is surprising.
I had a quick look at the US patents added, the oldest one is from 2010 and the second oldest is from 2017, so they are old but not that old.
Which is the issue with VIA-LA's patent list: it includes patents for things such as MVC, SVC and even 360-degree video that are rarely used or never used (and the ones that are used, they are used without breaking compatibility with High Profile).
This is why counting pages in VIA-LA's patent list is useless btw (other than being a fun past-time): if a new version of AVC/H.264 comes out tomorrow and it happens to include yet another addition to the AVC/H.264 standard, you can bet another couple of pages of patents will be added to VIA-LA's patent list, but this won't affect the patent status of the High Profile.
This is why I've begged this person (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F) to add lists for all countries (not just US, EU countries, and Canada) in the linked page which focuses solely on the High Profile.
benwaggoner
15th August 2024, 21:01
This is why I've begged this person (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F) to add lists for all countries (not just US, EU countries, and Canada) in the linked page which focuses solely on the High Profile.
Most of the patents wouldn't specify a profile or anything, though, and the patent lists don't indicate what methods they believe apply to any given application.
Even a court filing stating infringement can be impossibly vague about what specific infringement is being claimed versus what is not.
kurkosdr
15th August 2024, 22:08
Most of the patents wouldn't specify a profile or anything, though, and the patent lists don't indicate what methods they believe apply to any given application.
Even a court filing stating infringement can be impossibly vague about what specific infringement is being claimed versus what is not.
Patents don't specify a profile because they describe inventions (or at least they are supposed to describe inventions), and an invention can be essential to more than one profiles (or more than one standards in fact).
However, the reference encoder and decoder for the High Profile (that ISO and ITU published back then) count as prior act for High Profile, so patents with a priority date after the reference encoder and decoder release date can't be essential to High Profile, because you can't patent an invention that has already been invented and have a valid patent.
hajj_3
27th August 2024, 08:11
nokia is suing hp and amazon over h264 patents:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67928650/nokia-technologies-oy-v-hp-inc/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67928543/nokia-technologies-oy-v-amazoncom-inc/
amazon is now suing nokia for violating it's amazon web services networking patents: https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/31/amazon_nokia_lawsuit/
The article suggests that amazon know it is violating nokia's h264 patents and that the lawsuit is to pressure nokia to licence them for a fair cost.
benwaggoner
27th August 2024, 22:36
amazon is now suing nokia for violating it's amazon web services networking patents: https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/31/amazon_nokia_lawsuit/
The article suggests that amazon know it is violating nokia's h264 patents and that the lawsuit is to pressure nokia to licence them for a fair cost.
I don't have any inside information on this at all: 100% personal opinion. I hadn't heard of Nokia being sued until this post.
But big picture, it is standard practice for tech companies to bank "defensive" patents which don't get enforced on companies who act in good faith, but do get deployed against those trying to enforce patents in bad faith. Big innovative companies really prefer to stay out of patent litigation as much as possible, as it is expensive and distracting. So there's a lot of mutual assured destruction, and thus big patent cross-licensing deals between companies so they don't have to worry about getting sued by other big companies. Oracle v. Google was a very expensive and highly distracting multi-year slog that didn't really result in an interesting outcome.
It gets tricky when formerly big companies like Nokia that retain big patent portfolios but not much other business let their cross-licensing deals expire and increasingly focus their business on rent taking of their portfolios.
I've gone dozens of patents to my name, and I don't think a single one has been involved in any litigation.
ksec
31st August 2024, 03:41
So by 2025, AVC High Profiles would be patent free across most if not all parts of the world apart from US? I mean that is enough ground for some work to be done.
We could start breaking some compatibility and include large block size, ( similar to EVC ) and make a truly decent baseline patent free video codec which could be somewhere in between HEVC and VVC in terms of compression ratio at the expense higher encoding and decoding complexity.
hajj_3
31st August 2024, 06:13
So by 2025, AVC High Profiles would be patent free across most if not all parts of the world apart from US? I mean that is enough ground for some work to be done.
We could start breaking some compatibility and include large block size, ( similar to EVC ) and make a truly decent baseline patent free video codec which could be somewhere in between HEVC and VVC in terms of compression ratio at the expense higher encoding and decoding complexity.
why bother? h.264 is cheap to licence.
rwill
31st August 2024, 08:37
So by 2025, AVC High Profiles would be patent free across most if not all parts of the world apart from US? I mean that is enough ground for some work to be done.
We could start breaking some compatibility and include large block size, ( similar to EVC ) and make a truly decent baseline patent free video codec which could be somewhere in between HEVC and VVC in terms of compression ratio at the expense higher encoding and decoding complexity.
Well, lets assume the patents of H.264 have run out. As soon as one extends this H.264 with additional features he leaves the safe path and enters the patent minefield again.
kurkosdr
31st August 2024, 22:38
So by 2025, AVC High Profiles would be patent free across most if not all parts of the world apart from US? I mean that is enough ground for some work to be done.
Most? Yes. All? No. There are countries that are even worse than the US when it comes to patents. Two examples come to mind: Brazil has a law according to which patents that take more than 10 years to be approved (and were filed within a certain timeframe) have their expiration date moved to 10 years after approval, which results in a patent duration of more than 20 years (it's the reason there are still-active (https://www.via-la.com/wp-content/uploads/Final-July-1-2024-MPEG-4-Visual-Attachment-1.pdf) Brazilian patents in VIA-LA's MPEG-4 Part 2 pool). Another example is Malaysia which was still clearing its backlog of pre-TRIPS patents as of September 2020 (and might still be doing it), so there are still-active (https://www.via-la.com/wp-content/uploads/Final-July-1-2024-MPEG-2-Attachment-1.pdf) Malaysian patents in VIA-LA's MPEG-2 pool, one of which won't expire until September 2035.
Of course, not much software or hardware is distributed from those countries so most people won't care, but people importing software or hardware into those countries have to care, and it shows how much region-specific royalty-free is.
ksec
1st September 2024, 06:42
Well, lets assume the patents of H.264 have run out. As soon as one extends this H.264 with additional features he leaves the safe path and enters the patent minefield again.
Well it isn't so much about new features, but limitation of those existing features in place could now be massively extended because of computational power increase.
Avclover
2nd September 2024, 08:16
Well it isn't so much about new features, but limitation of those existing features in place could now be massively extended because of computational power increase.
Unsurprisingly, removing these limitations is also what makes HEVC and VVC superior and consequently covered by patents with a even later expiration date.
kurkosdr
2nd September 2024, 19:13
why bother? h.264 is cheap to licence.
It's not cheap to license if the end product is expected to cost $0 (not unless you are as rich as Google anyway). Browsers are a good example of this (since the public expects them to cost $0): One of the reasons Chrome won the browser wars over Firefox was that Chrome came with a bundled software H.264 decoder, which meant that H.264 in HTML5 video was guaranteed to work. Remember that those were the days Windows XP and Windows Vista reined supreme, and they didn't ship with an H.264 system codec (also, it wasn't certain back then that your GPU drivers would ship with an H.264 system codec, for example, I had a laptop with a Mobility Radeon X1600 that featured assisted DXVA acceleration but the drivers didn't come with an H.264 system decoder). And yes, I know Mozilla could've spent some of the money that Google gives them to pay for the H.264 patent royalties, but considering Google could always not renew that deal, I don't blame Mozilla for not wanting to assume an inflexible expense when the income to pay for it wasn't guaranteed.
This shows how, when it comes to patent royalties, "cheap" can be widely variable. Are the H.264 patent royalties cheap for a $3000 laptop? Yes. For a $40 FTA receiver? Maybe. For products expected to cost $0? No.
When H.264 High Profile becomes royalty-free, the last remaining support gaps (for example Firefox on Desktop Linux or FreeBSD) will close and H.264 will become a true universal baseline for the HTML5 video tag (it's already there as far as Average Joes are concerned, but you know, universal means universal).
hajj_3
8th September 2024, 12:09
patent list was updated on September 3rd, not sure what changes there are: https://www.via-la.com/wp-content/uploads/August-1-2024-AVC-Attachment-1-Revised-September-3-2024.pdf
benwaggoner
9th September 2024, 16:54
Well, lets assume the patents of H.264 have run out. As soon as one extends this H.264 with additional features he leaves the safe path and enters the patent minefield again.
Also, lots of patents have been granted to EVC and AV1 for use with those codecs. The patents weren't released to the public domain, and potentially could be enforced when used outside of the technology free use was given to.
oibaf
10th September 2024, 11:16
patent list was updated on September 3rd, not sure what changes there are: https://www.via-la.com/wp-content/uploads/August-1-2024-AVC-Attachment-1-Revised-September-3-2024.pdf
These:
-CN 102256122 - Exp. Jun 26, 2023
-HK 1159919 - Exp. Jun 27, 2023
+HK 1159919 (removed as of September 3, 2024)
-MO J/002154 - Exp. Jun 26, 2023
+MO J/002154 (removed as of September 3, 2024)
kurkosdr
11th September 2024, 19:36
These:
-CN 102256122 - Exp. Jun 26, 2023
-HK 1159919 - Exp. Jun 27, 2023
+HK 1159919 (removed as of September 3, 2024)
-MO J/002154 - Exp. Jun 26, 2023
+MO J/002154 (removed as of September 3, 2024)
I never understood, why remove expired patents from a patent pool?
It's not the first time it's happened, Samsung has removed some expired patents from the MPEG-4 Part 2 pool in the past:
http://web.archive.org/web/20190706184814/https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/m4v-att1.pdf
oibaf
14th October 2024, 17:57
Here it is all remaining patents with a priority date <= 2005-03-01 and known expiration date (patents with unknown priority or expiration date are omitted) sorted by their expiration dates (on the first field; the second field is the priority date), according to Google Patents. The patent is clickable.
Part 1
2024-11-10 : 2002-04-23 : US 9,577,667 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9577667/en)
2024-11-13 : 2000-07-07 : US 8,036,275 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8036275/en)
2024-11-26 : 2002-01-23 : US 7,421,138 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7421138/en)
2024-12-03 : 2004-01-30 : US 8,218,631 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8218631/en)
2024-12-04 : 2002-07-15 : US 7,292,636 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7292636/en)
2024-12-04 : 2004-01-30 : US 8,204,116 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8204116/en)
2024-12-13 : 2001-11-30 : US 7,379,499 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7379499/en)
2024-12-21 : 2002-01-09 : US 7,362,807 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7362807/en)
2024-12-24 : 2001-12-17 : US 7,116,830 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7116830/en)
2024-12-29 : 2002-01-22 : US 7,149,247 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7149247/en)
2025-01-04 : 2002-07-15 : US 9,001,891 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9001891/en)
2025-01-16 : 2002-07-15 : US 8,989,264 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8989264/en)
2025-01-19 : 2004-01-20 : CN 200910167348.9 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN101695132B/en)
2025-01-19 : 2004-01-20 : JP 4,705,921 (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP4705921/en)
2025-01-19 : 2004-01-20 : JP 5,249,363 (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP5249363/en)
2025-01-26 : 2001-11-06 : US 7,782,936 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7782936/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : CN 200580003035.X (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN100542262C/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : CN 200580003123.x (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN1910922B/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : EP 1,709,801 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EP1709801/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : EP 2,384,002 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2384002/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : JP 4,679,524 (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP4679524/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : JP 5,048,826 (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP5048826/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : JP 5,102,344 (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP5102344/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : US 8,194,734 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8194734/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : US 8,218,623 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8218623/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : US 8,477,838 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8477838/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : US Re. 46,500 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE46500/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : US Re. 48,401 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE48401/en)
2025-01-26 : 2004-01-30 : US Re. 49,787 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE49787/en)
2025-02-01 : 2001-12-17 : US 7,120,197 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7120197/en)
2025-02-18 : 2005-02-18 : JP 4,542,447 (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP4542447/en)
2025-02-19 : 2001-09-14 : US 8,798,173 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8798173/en)
2025-02-24 : 2004-10-15 : US 8,873,623 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8873623/en)
2025-02-24 : 2004-10-15 : US 8,873,624 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8873624/en)
2025-02-27 : 2003-03-03 : US 7,843,999 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7843999/en)
2025-02-28 : 2004-04-28 : US 8,923,387 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8923387/en)
2025-02-28 : 2004-04-28 : US 9,118,924 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9118924/en)
2025-02-28 : 2004-04-28 : US 9,270,998 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9270998/en)
2025-02-28 : 2004-04-28 : US 9,277,225 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9277225/en)
2025-02-28 : 2004-04-28 : US 9,277,226 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9277226/en)
2025-02-28 : 2004-04-28 : US 9,319,687 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9319687/en)
2025-02-28 : 2004-04-28 : US 9,414,082 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9414082/en)
2025-02-28 : 2004-04-28 : US 9,414,083 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9414083/en)
2025-02-28 : 2004-04-28 : US 9,414,084 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9414084/en)
2025-02-28 : 2004-04-28 : US 9,432,681 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9432681/en)
2025-03-05 : 2002-05-02 : US 7,496,143 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7496143/en)
2025-03-13 : 2001-06-15 : US 7,620,110 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7620110/en)
2025-04-04 : 2002-07-24 : US 7,339,991 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7339991/en)
2025-04-06 : 2002-05-28 : US Re. 43,567 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE43567/en)
2025-04-07 : 2002-05-28 : US 7,386,048 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7386048/en)
2025-04-15 : 2000-10-18 : US 8,269,891 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8269891/en)
2025-04-20 : 2001-12-17 : US 7,266,149 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7266149/en)
2025-05-02 : 2004-05-07 : US 10,194,149 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10194149/en)
2025-05-02 : 2004-05-07 : US 10,257,513 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10257513/en)
2025-05-02 : 2004-05-07 : US 10,397,572 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10397572/en)
2025-05-02 : 2004-05-07 : US 10,397,573 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10397573/en)
2025-05-02 : 2004-05-07 : US 9,380,311 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9380311/en)
2025-05-02 : 2004-05-07 : US 9,578,334 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9578334/en)
2025-05-02 : 2004-05-07 : US 9,628,802 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9628802/en)
2025-05-02 : 2004-05-07 : US 9,866,866 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9866866/en)
2025-05-02 : 2004-05-07 : US 9,948,931 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9948931/en)
2025-05-04 : 2002-05-01 : US 7,319,415 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7319415/en)
2025-05-04 : 2002-07-18 : US 8,467,621 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8467621/en)
2025-05-08 : 2004-05-07 : CN 100401780C (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN100401780C/en)
2025-05-11 : 2004-05-19 : US 10,110,900 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10110900/en)
2025-05-11 : 2004-05-19 : US 10,499,058 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10499058/en)
2025-05-11 : 2004-05-19 : US 10,728,554 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10728554/en)
2025-05-11 : 2004-05-19 : US 10,951,893 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10951893/en)
2025-05-11 : 2004-05-19 : US 8,548,047 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8548047/en)
2025-05-11 : 2004-05-19 : US 8,615,041 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8615041/en)
2025-05-11 : 2004-05-19 : US 9,113,165 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9113165/en)
2025-05-11 : 2004-05-19 : US 9,924,172 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9924172/en)
2025-05-16 : 2002-01-31 : US 7,561,623 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7561623/en)
2025-05-31 : 2003-03-31 : US Re. 43,062 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE43062/en)
2025-05-31 : 2003-03-31 : US Re. 45,983 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE45983/en)
2025-05-31 : 2003-03-31 : US Re. 48,953 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE48953/en)
2025-06-24 : 2002-04-23 : US 7,394,853 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7394853/en)
2025-06-29 : 2000-07-07 : US 8,184,719 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8184719/en)
2025-07-03 : 2000-07-07 : US 8,184,717 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8184717/en)
2025-07-12 : 2002-04-23 : US 7,822,283 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7822283/en)
2025-07-19 : 2002-07-11 : US 7,372,905 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7372905/en)
2025-07-20 : 2002-04-19 : US 7,248,740 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7248740/en)
2025-07-22 : 2002-08-08 : US 9,456,218 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9456218/en)
2025-07-23 : 2003-10-01 : US 7,286,710 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7286710/en)
2025-08-09 : 2004-08-18 : JP 4,628,216 (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP4628216/en)
2025-08-09 : 2004-08-18 : JP 4,892,628 (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP4892628/en)
2025-08-10 : 2002-10-01 : US 7,864,838 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7864838/en)
2025-08-13 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,233,546 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8233546/en)
2025-08-16 : 2004-08-16 : CN 200580005148.3 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN1922888B/en)
2025-08-16 : 2004-08-16 : JP 5,052,134 (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP5052134/en)
2025-08-16 : 2004-08-18 : US 8,111,747 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8111747/en)
2025-08-16 : 2004-08-18 : US 8,571,097 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8571097/en)
2025-08-16 : 2004-08-18 : US 8,670,482 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8670482/en)
2025-08-16 : 2004-08-18 : US 8,929,438 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8929438/en)
2025-08-16 : 2004-08-18 : US 9,077,988 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9077988/en)
2025-08-16 : 2004-08-18 : US 9,154,794 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9154794/en)
2025-08-16 : 2004-08-18 : US 9,445,106 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9445106/en)
2025-08-16 : 2004-08-18 : US 9,456,211 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9456211/en)
2025-08-16 : 2004-08-18 : US Re. 47,076 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE47076/en)
2025-08-20 : 2002-07-05 : US 7,280,700 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7280700/en)
2025-08-23 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,228,996 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8228996/en)
2025-08-27 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,827 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243827/en)
2025-09-01 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,233,528 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8233528/en)
2025-09-03 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,799 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243799/en)
2025-09-04 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,791 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243791/en)
2025-09-13 : 2000-07-07 : US 8,184,718 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8184718/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 200580035323.3 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN101095357B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 201010193467.4 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN101854550B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 201010245484.8 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN101931810B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 201010245555.4 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN101931811B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 201010245566.2 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN101931812B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 201010245597.8 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN101931813B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 201010245510.7 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN101938651B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 201010245535.7 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN101959066B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 201010245522.x (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN101980535B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 201110032577.7 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN102055985B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 201110032594.0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN102055986B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 201110032620.X (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN102082952B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : CN 201110032608.9 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN102098514B/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : JP 5,122,288 (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP5122288/en)
2025-09-21 : 2004-10-15 : JP 5,470,280 (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP5470280/en)
2025-09-25 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,238,448 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8238448/en)
2025-09-29 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,249,165 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8249165/en)
2025-10-07 : 2004-02-27 : US 7,586,924 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7586924/en)
2025-10-09 : 2002-10-11 : US 7,346,216 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7346216/en)
2025-10-25 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,228,977 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8228977/en)
2025-10-25 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,229,005 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8229005/en)
2025-10-25 : 2001-11-27 : US 7,660,353 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7660353/en)
2025-10-25 : 2002-01-31 : US 8,208,749 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8208749/en)
2025-10-27 : 2002-05-03 : US 9,363,536 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9363536/en)
2025-10-30 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,223,850 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8223850/en)
2025-10-31 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,228,978 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8228978/en)
2025-11-02 : 2002-11-22 : US 7,616,691 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7616691/en)
2025-11-03 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,795 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243795/en)
2025-11-03 : 2004-05-19 : US 9,794,564 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9794564/en)
2025-11-05 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,249,162 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8249162/en)
2025-11-06 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,238,422 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8238422/en)
2025-11-07 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,792 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243792/en)
2025-11-07 : 2001-07-12 : US 10,297,008 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10297008/en)
2025-11-08 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,238,417 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8238417/en)
2025-11-10 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,233,550 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8233550/en)
2025-11-10 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,786 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243786/en)
2025-11-10 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,817 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243817/en)
2025-11-10 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,828 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243828/en)
2025-11-11 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,238,418 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8238418/en)
2025-11-11 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,829 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243829/en)
2025-11-12 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,238,447 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8238447/en)
2025-11-12 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,819 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243819/en)
2025-11-16 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,249,174 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8249174/en)
2025-11-17 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,249,148 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8249148/en)
2025-11-17 : 2002-07-18 : US 8,509,550 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8509550/en)
2025-11-18 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,249,172 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8249172/en)
2025-11-20 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,800 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243800/en)
2025-11-22 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,830 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243830/en)
oibaf
14th October 2024, 18:02
Part 2
2025-12-07 : 2002-01-22 : US 7,505,485 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7505485/en)
2025-12-11 : 2004-05-19 : US 9,294,771 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9294771/en)
2025-12-13 : 2005-01-11 : CN 101099388 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN101099388/en)
2025-12-13 : 2005-01-11 : EP 1,836,852 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EP1836852/en)
2025-12-15 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,238,449 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8238449/en)
2025-12-20 : 2005-01-12 : CN 101120591 (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN101120591/en)
2025-12-20 : 2005-01-12 : CN 102065295B (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN102065295B/en)
2025-12-20 : 2005-01-12 : EP 1,839,442 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EP1839442/en)
2025-12-20 : 2005-01-12 : JP 5,042,856 (https://patents.google.com/patent/JP5042856/en)
2025-12-21 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,238,430 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8238430/en)
2025-12-26 : 2002-07-02 : US 7,327,788 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7327788/en)
2025-12-27 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,233,533 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8233533/en)
2026-01-06 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,794 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243794/en)
2026-01-11 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,249,173 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8249173/en)
2026-01-12 : 2004-01-30 : US 8,121,188 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8121188/en)
2026-01-16 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,243,793 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8243793/en)
2026-01-27 : 2001-06-15 : US 8,249,149 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8249149/en)
2026-02-01 : 2002-12-10 : US 7,324,593 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7324593/en)
2026-02-08 : 2002-10-04 : US 7,555,044 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7555044/en)
2026-02-12 : 2003-11-28 : US 7,400,681 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7400681/en)
2026-02-13 : 2002-04-19 : US 7,515,635 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7515635/en)
2026-03-06 : 2002-04-19 : US 7,940,845 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7940845/en)
2026-03-08 : 2002-11-20 : US 7,542,510 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7542510/en)
2026-03-29 : 2002-07-18 : US 8,565,544 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8565544/en)
2026-04-04 : 2002-04-26 : US 7,742,528 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7742528/en)
2026-04-22 : 2000-07-07 : US 8,406,310 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8406310/en)
2026-05-01 : 2004-10-15 : US 8,867,619 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8867619/en)
2026-05-02 : 2001-07-12 : US 10,504,205 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10504205/en)
2026-05-02 : 2003-01-30 : US 9,036,715 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9036715/en)
2026-05-07 : 2001-06-15 : US 7,706,451 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7706451/en)
2026-05-08 : 2004-01-30 : US 8,204,115 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8204115/en)
2026-05-12 : 2002-04-26 : US 7,778,331 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7778331/en)
2026-05-14 : 2001-06-15 : US 7,711,053 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7711053/en)
2026-05-14 : 2001-06-15 : US 7,711,054 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7711054/en)
2026-05-23 : 2002-04-26 : US 8,315,313 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8315313/en)
2026-05-26 : 2002-05-28 : US 8,228,986 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8228986/en)
2026-05-29 : 2004-01-30 : US 7,599,435 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7599435/en)
2026-05-30 : 2004-01-30 : US 8,218,630 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8218630/en)
2026-06-01 : 2003-12-04 : US 7,379,608 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7379608/en)
2026-06-02 : 2002-05-28 : US 8,233,538 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8233538/en)
2026-06-06 : 2001-09-12 : US 7,944,977 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7944977/en)
2026-06-06 : 2002-04-26 : US 10,477,270 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10477270/en)
2026-06-25 : 2002-07-18 : US 8,472,738 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8472738/en)
2026-07-01 : 2002-07-15 : US 7,970,058 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7970058/en)
2026-07-04 : 2001-09-12 : US 7,961,793 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7961793/en)
2026-07-07 : 2002-05-28 : US 8,279,927 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8279927/en)
2026-07-11 : 2002-07-18 : US 8,467,620 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8467620/en)
2026-07-13 : 2002-07-18 : US 8,467,622 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8467622/en)
2026-07-19 : 2002-04-23 : US 8,155,200 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8155200/en)
2026-07-19 : 2002-04-23 : US 8,155,201 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8155201/en)
2026-07-22 : 2002-11-25 : US 8,009,731 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8009731/en)
2026-07-26 : 2002-04-23 : US 8,160,147 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8160147/en)
2026-07-28 : 2001-11-29 : US 8,254,468 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8254468/en)
2026-07-29 : 2003-05-15 : US 7,742,655 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7742655/en)
2026-08-03 : 2004-01-30 : US 7,630,435 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7630435/en)
2026-08-21 : 2004-01-30 : US 8,565,304 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8565304/en)
2026-08-27 : 2002-10-08 : US 7,916,959 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7916959/en)
2026-09-03 : 2002-04-19 : US 8,009,733 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8009733/en)
2026-09-06 : 2002-01-09 : US 8,290,047 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8290047/en)
2026-09-08 : 2002-07-15 : US 7,760,803 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7760803/en)
2026-09-10 : 2002-04-19 : US 8,184,697 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8184697/en)
2026-10-07 : 2001-11-29 : US 8,345,770 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8345770/en)
2026-10-08 : 2002-04-19 : US 8,204,112 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8204112/en)
2026-10-11 : 2002-04-23 : US 8,213,510 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8213510/en)
2026-10-13 : 2002-05-28 : US 8,331,450 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8331450/en)
2026-11-05 : 2002-04-19 : US 8,223,841 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8223841/en)
2026-11-15 : 2002-04-15 : US 8,265,403 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8265403/en)
2026-12-04 : 2002-07-11 : US 7,995,658 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7995658/en)
2026-12-08 : 2001-11-27 : US 7,769,087 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7769087/en)
2027-01-16 : 2002-05-02 : US 7,702,013 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7702013/en)
2027-01-29 : 2002-05-03 : US 8,265,148 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8265148/en)
2027-01-29 : 2002-10-03 : US 7,596,178 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7596178/en)
2027-03-08 : 2002-07-18 : US 8,548,264 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8548264/en)
2027-05-01 : 2002-01-09 : US Re. 46,924 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE46924/en)
2027-05-01 : 2002-01-09 : US Re. 48,035 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE48035/en)
2027-05-05 : 2003-03-03 : US 8,130,842 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8130842/en)
2027-05-07 : 2002-07-19 : US 8,379,722 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8379722/en)
2027-05-17 : 2002-07-18 : US 8,463,058 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8463058/en)
2027-06-09 : 2003-03-03 : US 8,149,919 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8149919/en)
2027-07-02 : 2002-06-03 : US 8,374,245 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8374245/en)
2027-08-08 : 2002-09-26 : US 7,760,950 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7760950/en)
2027-08-09 : 2002-05-03 : US 7,609,767 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7609767/en)
2027-09-09 : 2003-05-22 : US 7,684,489 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7684489/en)
2027-12-19 : 2002-11-01 : US 9,426,490 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9426490/en)
2027-12-21 : 2002-11-25 : US 7,881,375 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7881375/en)
2028-04-03 : 2004-03-30 : US 8,150,206 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8150206/en)
2028-05-20 : 2003-04-10 : US 7,899,113 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7899113/en)
2028-07-16 : 2003-02-21 : US 8,081,678 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8081678/en)
2028-09-22 : 2005-01-12 : US 8,315,315 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8315315/en)
2028-11-04 : 2002-05-02 : US 9,362,949 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9362949/en)
2028-11-07 : 2004-01-20 : US 7,912,122 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7912122/en)
2028-12-14 : 2004-01-30 : US 7,933,327 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7933327/en)
2029-02-22 : 2004-05-07 : US 7,894,530 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7894530/en)
2029-05-10 : 2005-01-11 : US 8,948,739 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8948739/en)
2029-07-31 : 2002-05-02 : US 9,450,608 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9450608/en)
2029-08-04 : 2002-05-02 : US 9,490,837 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9490837/en)
2029-08-22 : 2002-05-02 : US 9,490,838 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9490838/en)
2029-11-04 : 2004-10-15 : US 8,218,628 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8218628/en)
2030-01-08 : 2004-08-18 : US 7,916,782 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7916782/en)
2030-04-04 : 2004-10-15 : US 8,873,622 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8873622/en)
2030-08-07 : 2002-04-23 : US 8,179,968 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8179968/en)
2030-11-26 : 2001-09-14 : US 9,356,620 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9356620/en)
2031-05-22 : 2001-03-02 : US 8,374,237 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8374237/en)
2031-07-05 : 2002-01-09 : US 8,290,046 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8290046/en)
FranceBB
14th October 2024, 22:23
Looks like 2025 is gonna be a very big year for patents expiration. Still, it's a bit insane that some patents from 2002 are gonna be pushed over 2030 and into 2031...
hajj_3
23rd October 2024, 15:33
nokia has won an injunction against amazon in germany: https://ipfray.com/breaking-nokia-wins-germany-wide-standard-essential-patent-injunction-against-amazon-video-streaming-devices-like-fire-tv-stick/
here is the patent:EP2375749 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2375749B1/en?oq=EP2375749)
kurkosdr
24th October 2024, 11:27
Still, it's a bit insane that some patents from 2002 are gonna be pushed over 2030 and into 2031...
I always wondered: how do they even get those extensions legally? Aren't post-TRIPS patents supposed to last 20 years after the filing date? I understand giving patents an extra year or so to cover for any USPTO delays, but 8 years is insane.
oibaf
12th November 2024, 17:51
Still, it's a bit insane that some patents from 2002 are gonna be pushed over 2030 and into 2031...
I always wondered: how do they even get those extensions legally? Aren't post-TRIPS patents supposed to last 20 years after the filing date? I understand giving patents an extra year or so to cover for any USPTO delays, but 8 years is insane.
If you find out some of the listed patents may be wrong (wrong priority or expiration dates), please let me know, maybe I could fix the hacky script I used to get the data from Google Patents.
hajj_3
16th November 2024, 15:02
nokia has ended their lawsuit against HP. HP will licence nokia's patents: https://www.mobileworldlive.com/nokia/nokia-resolves-video-patent-case-with-hp/
kurkosdr
16th November 2024, 22:36
nokia has won an injunction against amazon in germany: https://ipfray.com/breaking-nokia-wins-germany-wide-standard-essential-patent-injunction-against-amazon-video-streaming-devices-like-fire-tv-stick/
here is the patent:EP2375749 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2375749B1/en?oq=EP2375749)
Article says that the patent is "standard essential" but doesn't specify which standard it is essential for. That's some quality reporting right there from a website that supposedly specializes in intellectual property disputes and debates :rolleyes:
The good news is that the patent has a priority date after the publication of the High Profile, and the fact it's cited by "Scalable Video Coding - Working Draft 3" indicates it's related to SVC, so it's not essential for decoding the High Profile in a basic manner (that is, like the reference decoder does it).
That said, do we have a list of the non-US patents Nokia is suing over?
hajj_3
3rd February 2025, 22:46
patent list was updated today, not sure what changes there are: https://www.via-la.com/wp-content/uploads/Final-February-1-2025-AVC-Attachment-1.pdf
kurkosdr
6th November 2025, 18:30
As an aside, it's been more than 3 months since VIA-LA last updated their patent lists for H.264 and VC-1:
https://via-la.com/licensing-programs/avc-h-264/#patent-list
https://via-la.com/licensing-programs/vc-1/#patent-list
Is this just them being slower than usual, or have they switched to a slower update cadence (it was every 3 months until now)? Who knows..
hajj_3
6th November 2025, 23:34
As an aside, it's been more than 3 months since VIA-LA last updated their patent lists for H.264 and VC-1:
https://via-la.com/licensing-programs/avc-h-264/#patent-list
https://via-la.com/licensing-programs/vc-1/#patent-list
Is this just them being slower than usual, or have they switched to a slower update cadence (it was every 3 months until now)? Who knows..
they have updated their VC-1 patents now. They have redesigned their website too.
kurkosdr
8th November 2025, 01:05
they have updated their VC-1 patents now. They have redesigned their website too.
As an aside (to the as an aside above), these are the VC-1 news I was waiting for:
https://via-la.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Final-November-1-2025-VC-1-Attachment-1.pdf
With the exception of the US and Brazil, VC-1 will become royalty-free by the end of the year, making it a royalty-free option for Blu-ray discs not to be sold in the US and Brazil (that is, if you are willing to throw some more bitrate at it compared to H.264, since VC-1 is not as efficient as H.264).
hajj_3
14th November 2025, 01:13
patent list was updated today: https://via-la.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Final-Nov.-1-2025-AVC-Active-Attachment-1.pdf
oibaf
14th November 2025, 10:28
Here it is all remaining patents with a priority date <= 2005-03-01 and known expiration date (patents with unknown priority or expiration date are omitted) sorted by their expiration dates (on the first field; the second field is the priority date), according to Google Patents. The patent is clickable.
Part 1/2
2026-02-08 : 2002-10-04 : US 7,555,044 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7555044) : Google Technology Holdings LLC
2026-02-12 : 2003-11-28 : US 7,400,681 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7400681) : Cisco Systems Canada Co Scientific Atlanta LLC
2026-02-13 : 2002-04-19 : US 7,515,635 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7515635) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2026-03-06 : 2002-04-19 : US 7,940,845 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7940845) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp of America
2026-03-08 : 2002-11-20 : US 7,542,510 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7542510) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2026-04-04 : 2002-04-26 : US 7,742,528 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7742528) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2026-04-22 : 2000-07-07 : US 8,406,310 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8406310) : Nong Hyup Bank As Trustee For Kdb Infra Ip Capital Fund Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute ETRI
2026-05-01 : 2004-10-15 : US 8,867,619 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8867619) : Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV
2026-05-02 : 2001-07-12 : US 10,504,205 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10504205) : Tagivan II LLC
2026-05-02 : 2003-01-30 : US 9,036,715 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9036715) : Koninklijke Philips NV
2026-05-07 : 2001-06-15 : US 7,706,451 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7706451) : LG Electronics Inc
2026-05-12 : 2002-04-26 : US 7,778,331 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7778331) : Sony Corp
2026-05-14 : 2001-06-15 : US 7,711,053 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7711053) : LG Electronics Inc
2026-05-14 : 2001-06-15 : US 7,711,054 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7711054) : LG Electronics Inc
2026-05-17 : 2001-11-30 : BR PI0214328-3 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0214328/en) : Ericsson Telefon Ab L M
2026-05-23 : 2002-04-26 : US 8,315,313 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8315313) : Sony Corp
2026-05-26 : 2002-05-28 : US 8,228,986 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8228986) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
2026-05-29 : 2004-01-30 : US 7,599,435 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7599435) : Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV
2026-06-02 : 2002-05-28 : US 8,233,538 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8233538) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
2026-06-06 : 2001-09-12 : US 7,944,977 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7944977) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp of America
2026-06-06 : 2002-04-26 : US 10,477,270 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10477270) : Sony Corp
2026-06-25 : 2002-07-18 : US 8,472,738 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8472738) : LG Electronics Inc
2026-07-01 : 2002-07-15 : US 7,970,058 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7970058) : Maxell Ltd
2026-07-04 : 2001-09-12 : US 7,961,793 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7961793) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp of America
2026-07-07 : 2002-05-28 : US 8,279,927 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8279927) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
2026-07-11 : 2002-07-18 : US 8,467,620 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8467620) : LG Electronics Inc
2026-07-13 : 2002-07-18 : US 8,467,622 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8467622) : LG Electronics Inc
2026-07-19 : 2000-04-14 : BR PI0109962-0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0109962/en) : Siemens Ag
2026-07-19 : 2002-04-23 : US 8,155,201 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8155201) : Tagivan II LLC
2026-07-22 : 2002-11-25 : US 8,009,731 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8009731) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2026-07-28 : 2001-11-29 : US 8,254,468 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8254468) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2026-07-29 : 2003-05-15 : US 7,742,655 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7742655) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
2026-08-21 : 2004-01-30 : US 8,565,304 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8565304) : Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV
2026-08-27 : 2002-10-08 : US 7,916,959 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7916959) : NTT Docomo Inc
2026-09-03 : 2002-04-19 : US 8,009,733 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8009733) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2026-09-06 : 2002-01-09 : US 8,290,047 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8290047) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp of America
2026-09-08 : 2002-07-15 : US 7,760,803 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7760803) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2026-09-10 : 2002-04-19 : US 8,184,697 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8184697) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2026-09-27 : 2002-03-27 : BR PI0303661-8 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0303661/en) : Matsushita Electric Indusrial Co Ltd, Panasonic Corp, Panasonic Ip Corp America
2026-10-07 : 2001-11-29 : US 8,345,770 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8345770) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2026-10-08 : 2002-04-19 : US 8,204,112 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8204112) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2026-10-11 : 2002-04-23 : US 8,213,510 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8213510) : Tagivan II LLC
2026-10-13 : 2002-05-28 : US 8,331,450 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8331450) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
2026-11-05 : 2002-04-19 : US 8,223,841 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8223841) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2026-11-15 : 2002-04-15 : US 8,265,403 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8265403) : VIDEOLABS Inc
2026-12-04 : 2002-07-11 : US 7,995,658 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7995658) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp of America
2026-12-13 : 2002-04-19 : BR PI0304534-0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0304534/en) : Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd, Panasonic Corp, Panasonic Ip Corp America
2027-01-16 : 2002-05-02 : US 7,702,013 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7702013) : Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV
2027-01-29 : 2002-05-03 : US 8,265,148 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8265148) : Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
2027-01-29 : 2002-10-03 : US 7,596,178 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7596178) : NTT Docomo Inc
2027-02-11 : 2004-01-30 : US 7,630,435 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7630435) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp of America
2027-02-21 : 2002-04-18 : BR PI0304533-1 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0304533/en) : Kk Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
2027-04-11 : 2001-11-29 : BR PI0206820-6 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0206820/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd, Panasonic Corp, Panasonic Ip Corp America
2027-05-01 : 2002-01-09 : US Re. 46,924 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE46924) : Dolby International AB
2027-05-01 : 2002-01-09 : US Re. 48,035 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE48035) : Dolby International AB
2027-05-01 : 2002-01-09 : US Re. 50,574 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USRE50574) : Dolby International AB
2027-05-05 : 2003-03-03 : US 8,130,842 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8130842) : LG Electronics Inc
2027-05-07 : 2002-07-19 : US 8,379,722 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8379722) : Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
2027-06-09 : 2003-03-03 : US 8,149,919 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8149919) : LG Electronics Inc
2027-07-02 : 2002-06-03 : US 8,374,245 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8374245) : Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
2027-08-08 : 2002-09-26 : US 7,760,950 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7760950) : NTT Docomo Inc
2027-08-09 : 2002-05-03 : US 7,609,767 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7609767) : Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
2027-09-09 : 2003-05-22 : US 7,684,489 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7684489) : Cisco Technology Inc
2027-09-26 : 2001-11-22 : BR PI0206629-7 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0206629/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2027-12-12 : 2001-08-23 : BR PI 0212000-3 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0212000/en) : Polycom, Inc.
2027-12-19 : 2002-04-23 : BR PI 0304549-8 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0304549/en) : Tagivan Ii Llc
2027-12-19 : 2002-11-01 : US 9,426,490 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9426490) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2027-12-21 : 2002-11-25 : US 7,881,375 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7881375) : Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
2028-02-06 : 2002-04-15 : BR PI 0303566-2 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0303566/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2028-02-14 : 2002-04-19 : BR PI0304543-9 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0304543/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2028-02-14 : 2002-10-22 : BR PI0315552-8 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0315552/en) : Koninklijke Philips N. V.
2028-02-14 : 2002-11-22 : BR PI0307635-0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0307635/en) : Kk Toshiba Toshiba Corporation
2028-02-14 : 2002-11-25 : BR PI0307119-7 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0307119/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2028-02-27 : 2002-01-09 : BR PI 0302580-2 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0302580/en) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation Of America
2028-02-27 : 2002-04-26 : BR PI0304558-7 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0304558/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2028-02-27 : 2002-11-25 : BR PI0318759-4 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0318759/en) :
2028-02-27 : 2003-04-10 : BR PI-0408570-1 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0408570/en) : Thomson Licensing
2028-03-06 : 2002-07-11 : BR PI0303901-3 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0303901/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2028-03-13 : 2002-11-01 : BR PI0306684-3 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0306684/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2028-03-20 : 2001-08-31 : BR PI 0205954-1 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0205954/en) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation Of America
2028-04-03 : 2002-07-15 : BR PI0305554-0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0305554/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2028-04-03 : 2002-11-20 : BR PI0306987-7 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0306987/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2028-04-03 : 2004-03-30 : US 8,150,206 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8150206) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
2028-05-20 : 2003-04-10 : US 7,899,113 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7899113) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
2028-05-29 : 2003-03-03 : BR 122014032858-3 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BR122014032858/en) : Lg Electronics Inc.
2028-05-29 : 2003-03-03 : BR 122014032870-2 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BR122014032870/en) : Lg Electronics Inc.
2028-06-05 : 2003-03-03 : BR 122014032866-4 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BR122014032866/en) : Lg Electronics Inc.
2028-06-05 : 2003-03-03 : BR PI 0407671-0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0407671/en) : Lg Electronics Inc
2028-06-19 : 2002-11-25 : BR PI0307197-9 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0307197/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2028-07-03 : 2002-07-11 : BR PI 0305432-2 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0305432/en) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation Of America
2028-07-16 : 2003-02-21 : US 8,081,678 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8081678) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp of America
2028-09-04 : 2003-05-15 : BR PI0410320-3 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0410320/en) : Thomson Licensing
2028-09-22 : 2005-01-12 : US 8,315,315 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8315315) : Orange SA
2028-09-25 : 2001-10-17 : BR PI0206157-0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0206157/en) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation Of America
2028-09-25 : 2001-10-17 : BR PI 0216048-0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0216048/en) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation Of America
2028-09-25 : 2001-10-17 : BR PI 0216072-2 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0216072/en) : Panasonic Corp, Panasonic Ip Corp America
2028-10-16 : 2003-02-21 : BR PI0406507-7 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0406507/en) : Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd
2028-11-04 : 2002-05-02 : US 9,362,949 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9362949) : Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV
2028-11-06 : 2004-10-15 : BR PI 0516336-6 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0516336/en) : Fraunhofer Ges Forschung
2028-11-07 : 2004-01-20 : US 7,912,122 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7912122) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp of America
2028-11-21 : 2003-03-03 : BR PI0406424-0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0406424/en) : Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd
2028-11-21 : 2004-10-15 : BR PI 0516348-0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0516348/en) : Fraunhofer Ges Forschung
2028-12-04 : 2005-01-12 : BR P10519842-9 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0519842A2/en) : France Telecom
2028-12-14 : 2004-01-30 : US 7,933,327 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7933327) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp of America
oibaf
14th November 2025, 10:28
Part 2/2
2029-02-22 : 2004-05-07 : US 7,894,530 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7894530) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
2029-05-03 : 2002-10-22 : US 8,391,371 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8391371) : Koninklijke Philips NV
2029-05-10 : 2005-01-11 : US 8,948,739 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8948739) : Siemens AG
2029-06-04 : 2002-07-02 : BR PI 0303336-8 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0303336/en) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation Of America
2029-06-25 : 2004-10-15 : BR 122018016193-0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BR122018016193/en) : Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
2029-07-02 : 2002-03-04 : BR PI 0303342-2 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0303342/en) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation Of America
2029-07-31 : 2002-05-02 : US 9,450,608 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9450608) : Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV
2029-08-04 : 2002-05-02 : US 9,490,837 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9490837) : Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV
2029-08-13 : 2002-04-12 : BR PI 0318797-7 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0318797/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2029-08-22 : 2002-05-02 : US 9,490,838 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9490838) : Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV
2029-10-01 : 2002-04-12 : BR PI 0303673-1 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0303673/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2029-10-01 : 2002-04-12 : BR PI 0318816-7 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0318816/en) : Godo Kaisha Ip Bridge 1
2029-11-04 : 2004-10-15 : US 8,218,628 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8218628) : Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV
2029-11-19 : 2003-03-03 : BR PI 0419287-7 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0419287/en) : Lg Electronics Inc
2029-12-03 : 2004-10-15 : BR 12 2018 016188-4 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BR122018016188/en) : Fraunhofer Ges Forschung
2030-01-08 : 2004-08-18 : US 7,916,782 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7916782) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp of America
2030-02-11 : 2002-11-22 : BR 122018011878-4 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BR122018011878/en) : Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
2030-02-18 : 2002-11-22 : BR 122018011876-8 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BR122018011876/en) : Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
2030-03-10 : 2002-11-22 : BR 122018011874-1 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BR122018011874/en) : Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
2030-03-10 : 2002-11-22 : BR 122018011875-0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BR122018011875/en) : Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
2030-04-04 : 2004-10-15 : US 8,873,622 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8873622) : Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV
2030-08-07 : 2002-04-23 : US 8,179,968 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8179968) : Tagivan II LLC
2030-11-10 : 2002-05-01 : BR PI0304568-4 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0304568/en) : Dolby International Ab
2030-11-26 : 2001-09-14 : US 9,356,620 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9356620) : Siemens AG
2031-05-22 : 2001-03-02 : US 8,374,237 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8374237) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp Dolby Laboratories Inc
2031-07-05 : 2002-01-09 : US 8,290,046 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8290046) : Panasonic Intellectual Property Corp of America
kurkosdr
14th December 2025, 01:57
Something I just noticed. In their "essentiality overview", VIA-LA considers the patents to be essential for versions of the standard published in 2008 or later:
https://via-la.com/licensing-programs/avc-h-264/#essentiality-overview
(basically, the oldest standard cited is this one (https://www.iso.org/standard/50726.html))
Could be a typo, could be anything, but I find it funny that everyone buys a license from VIA-LA to implement the 2005 version of the standard (aka this one (https://www.iso.org/standard/43058.html)), except the people making Blu-ray 3D players I guess, and yet VIA-LA is like "nah, you don't need a license for that old revision of AVC/H.264".
EDIT: I am not saying that H.264 High Profile should be declared clear of patents, VIA-LA's "essentiality overview" is not legally binding anyway
kurkosdr
14th December 2025, 16:36
Here it is all remaining patents with a priority date <= 2005-03-01 and known expiration date (patents with unknown priority or expiration date are omitted) sorted by their expiration dates (on the first field; the second field is the priority date), according to Google Patents.
Can I ask one favor? Is it possible to compile a list of patents with an unknown priority date or an unknown expiration date (or both)? Just to know what "dark areas" we are dealing with.
oibaf
14th December 2025, 17:34
Sure, here they are. Note:
BR expiry dates in my previous post are estimated by my script, not by Google Patents
priority is get like this: using the priorArtDate tag in Google Patents, and only if not available using the first priorityDate tag
Unknown expiry and/or priority date - part 1/2
????-??-?? : 2002-04-15 : MY 140969 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MY140969/en) : Panasonic Corp
????-??-?? : 2002-04-15 : MY 141699 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MY141699/en) : Panasonic Corp
????-??-?? : 2005-04-13 : MY 167744-A (https://patents.google.com/patent/MY167744A/en) : Dolby Int Ab
????-??-?? : 2007-01-18 : TW I445412 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI445412/en) : Fraunhofer Ges Forschung
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : HK 1,255,617 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1255617/en) : Dolby International Ab
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : HK 40033548 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40033548/en) : Dolby International Ab
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : HK 40033581 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40033581/en) : Dolby International Ab
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : HK 40044425 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40044425/en) : Dolby International Ab
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : RU 2,521,618 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2521618/en) :
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : RU 2,651,227 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2651227/en) :
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : RU 2,684,184 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2684184/en) :
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : RU 2,709,671 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2709671/en) :
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : RU 2,721,941 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2721941/en) :
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : RU 2,733,273 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2733273/en) :
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : RU 2,752,572 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2752572/en) :
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : RU 2,763,966 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2763966/en) :
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : RU 2,789,309 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2789309/en) :
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : RU 2,813,744 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2813744/en) :
????-??-?? : 2007-04-12 : ZA 2010/06649 (https://patents.google.com/patent/ZA201006649/en) : Thomson Licensing
????-??-?? : 2007-04-18 : RU 2501179 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2501179/en) :
????-??-?? : 2007-04-18 : TW I415450 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI415450/en) : Thomson Licensing
????-??-?? : 2007-04-18 : TW I445393 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI445393/en) : Thomson Licensing
????-??-?? : 2007-04-18 : TW I445407 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI445407/en) : Thomson Licensing
????-??-?? : 2007-07-13 : TH 88077 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TH88077/en) :
????-??-?? : 2009-01-29 : HK 1,220,301 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1220301/en) :
????-??-?? : 2009-01-29 : HK 1,220,303 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1220303/en) :
????-??-?? : 2009-01-29 : HK 1,220,563 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1220563/en) :
????-??-?? : 2009-01-29 : HK 1,220,564 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1220564/en) :
????-??-?? : 2009-01-29 : HK 1,221,360 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1221360/en) :
????-??-?? : 2009-01-29 : HK 1,221,361 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1221361/en) :
????-??-?? : 2009-01-29 : HK 1,222,495 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1222495/en) :
????-??-?? : 2010-10-18 : HK 1,227,201 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1227201/en) :
????-??-?? : 2010-10-18 : HK 1,227,202 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1227202/en) :
????-??-?? : 2010-10-18 : HK 1,227,590 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1227590/en) :
????-??-?? : 2011-05-27 : HK 1191778 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1191778/en) :
????-??-?? : 2011-05-27 : HK 1198088 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1198088/en) :
????-??-?? : 2011-05-27 : HK 40041880 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40041880/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
????-??-?? : 2011-05-27 : HK 40069190 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40069190/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : HK 1,229,922 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1229922/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : HK 1231191 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1231191/en) :
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : HK 1231192 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1231192/en) :
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : HK 1231193 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1231193/en) :
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : HK 1,231,195 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1231195/en) :
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : HK 1231196 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK1231196/en) :
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : HK 40010382 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40010382/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : HK 40049320 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40049320/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : HK 40049879 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40049879/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : HK 40112223 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40112223/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : MX 365,964 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MX365964/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : MX 365,965 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MX365965/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : MX 380258 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MX380258/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : MY 193501-A (https://patents.google.com/patent/MY193501A/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : MY 198864-A (https://patents.google.com/patent/MY198864A/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : MY 203733-A (https://patents.google.com/patent/MY203733A/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : MY 203888-A (https://patents.google.com/patent/MY203888A/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : RU 2,665,211 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2665211/en) :
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : RU 2,711,102 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2711102/en) :
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : RU 2,728,845 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2728845/en) :
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : RU 2,772,241 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2772241/en) :
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : SG 10201604112P (https://patents.google.com/patent/SG10201604112P/en) : Dolby Lab Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : SG 10201604130U (https://patents.google.com/patent/SG10201604130U/en) : Dolby Lab Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2011-12-06 : SG 10201607838P (https://patents.google.com/patent/SG10201607838P/en) : Dolby Lab Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2014-12-03 : MX 361131 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MX361131/en) : Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd
????-??-?? : 2014-12-03 : MX 366,971 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MX366971/en) : Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd
????-??-?? : 2014-12-03 : MX 383827 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MX383827/en) : Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd
????-??-?? : 2014-12-03 : MX 389,193 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MX389193/en) : Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd
????-??-?? : 2014-12-03 : MX 390,639 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MX390639/en) : Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd
????-??-?? : 2014-12-03 : MX 393,117 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MX393117/en) : Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd
????-??-?? : 2015-08-04 : HK 40010357 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40010357/en) :
????-??-?? : 2015-08-04 : RU 2,736,103 (https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2736103/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-02-09 : TW I669946 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI669946/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-02-09 : TW I736895 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI736895/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-02-09 : TW I747775 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI747775/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-02-09 : TW I750072 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI750072/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-02-09 : TW I762206 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI762206/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-02-09 : TW I762207 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI762207/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-02-09 : TW I762259 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI762259/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-02-09 : TW I762260 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI762260/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-02-09 : TW I793532 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI793532/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-02-09 : TW I793533 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI793533/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-02-09 : TW I850969 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI850969/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-05-27 : TW I842000 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI842000/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-05-27 : TW I874184 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI874184/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-05-27 : TW I874185 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI874185/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-05-27 : TW I874186 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI874186/en) :
oibaf
14th December 2025, 17:37
Unknown expiry and/or priority date - part 2/2
????-??-?? : 2016-05-27 : TW I874187 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI874187/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-05-27 : TW I874188 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI874188/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-05-27 : TW I878091 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI878091/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40066004 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40066004/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40066005 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40066005/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40066006 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40066006/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40066007 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40066007/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40071040 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40071040/en) : 有限公司 B1 影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40071404 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40071404/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40072997 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40072997/en) : 有限公司 B1 影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40072998 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40072998/en) : 有限公司 B1 影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40073014 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40073014/en) : 有限公司 B1 影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40073015 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40073015/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40073016 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40073016/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40073017 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40073017/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40074073 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40074073/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40074506 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40074506/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40074507 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40074507/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40076522 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40076522/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40076523 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40076523/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40076524 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40076524/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40089889 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40089889/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40089890 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40089890/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40089891 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40089891/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-04 : HK 40090142 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40090142/en) : 有限公司B1影像技术研究所
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : EA 042564 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EA042564/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : EA 048261 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EA048261/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : EA 048724 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EA048724/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : EA 050028 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EA050028/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : HK 40010573 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40010573/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : HK 40012966 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40012966/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : HK 40090947 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40090947/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : HK 40091904 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40091904/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : IL 265,771 (https://patents.google.com/patent/IL265771/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : IL 280688 (https://patents.google.com/patent/IL280688/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : IL 287875 (https://patents.google.com/patent/IL287875/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : IL 296162 (https://patents.google.com/patent/IL296162/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : IL 305702 (https://patents.google.com/patent/IL305702/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : IL 310,366 (https://patents.google.com/patent/IL310366/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : MX 388842 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MX388842/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : MY 201472-A (https://patents.google.com/patent/MY201472A/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : OA 19660 (https://patents.google.com/patent/OA19660/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
????-??-?? : 2016-10-05 : PH 1/2019/500718 (https://patents.google.com/patent/PH12019500718/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2016-10-12 : MX 393311 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MX393311/en) : Fraunhofer Ges Forschung
????-??-?? : 2016-10-12 : TW I664857 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI664857/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-10-12 : TW I753263 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI753263/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-10-12 : TW I810763 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI810763/en) :
????-??-?? : 2016-11-29 : EA 039463 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EA039463/en) :
????-??-?? : 2017-07-11 : BR PI0304528-5 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0304528/en) :
????-??-?? : 2017-08-22 : BR PI0206777-3 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0206777/en) :
????-??-?? : 2017-10-31 : UA 124806 (https://patents.google.com/patent/UA124806/en) :
????-??-?? : 2018-04-10 : UA 128323 (https://patents.google.com/patent/UA128323/en) :
????-??-?? : 2018-04-13 : UA 129191 (https://patents.google.com/patent/UA129191/en) :
????-??-?? : 2018-05-16 : UA 129781 (https://patents.google.com/patent/UA129781/en) :
????-??-?? : 2018-08-21 : BR PI0306560-0 (https://patents.google.com/patent/BRPI0306560/en) :
????-??-?? : 2019-03-11 : EA 042523 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EA042523/en) :
????-??-?? : 2019-03-11 : EA 044734 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EA044734/en) :
????-??-?? : 2019-03-11 : EA 047543 (https://patents.google.com/patent/EA047543/en) :
????-??-?? : 2019-03-11 : HK 40035149 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40035149/en) :
????-??-?? : 2019-03-11 : HK 40067049 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40067049/en) :
????-??-?? : 2019-03-11 : HK 40069255 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40069255/en) :
????-??-?? : 2019-03-11 : HK 40069256 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40069256/en) :
????-??-?? : 2019-03-11 : IL 277365 (https://patents.google.com/patent/IL277365/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2019-03-11 : IL 289965 (https://patents.google.com/patent/IL289965/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2019-03-11 : IL 295131 (https://patents.google.com/patent/IL295131/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2019-03-11 : IL 304034 (https://patents.google.com/patent/IL304034/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2019-03-11 : PH 12020551511 (https://patents.google.com/patent/PH12020551511/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
????-??-?? : 2020-06-15 : HK 40085735 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40085735/en) : Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
????-??-?? : 2020-06-15 : HK 40090617 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40090617/en) :
????-??-?? : 2020-06-15 : HK 40098573 (https://patents.google.com/patent/HK40098573/en) :
????-??-?? : 2022-10-13 : MA 60463 B1 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MA60463B1/en) : Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Fërderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
????-??-?? : 2022-10-13 : MY 207325-A (https://patents.google.com/patent/MY207325A/en) : Fraunhofer Ges Zur Frderung Der Angewandten Forschung E V
????-??-?? : 2022-10-13 : TW I871646 (https://patents.google.com/patent/TWI871646/en) :
????-??-?? : 2022-10-13 : ZA 202305828 (https://patents.google.com/patent/ZA202305828/en) : Fraunhofer Ges Forschung
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : AE 6837 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : AE 6838 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : AE 8094 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : AP 6125 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : AP 6941 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : AP 7595 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : AP 7908 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : AP 7968 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : CL 63,859 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : CL 71,581 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : CO 39273 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : CO 41016 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : CO 42394 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : ET PT173 B1 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : ID P000090281 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : ID P000090285 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : ID P000092070 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : ID P00202111148 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 306797 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 423822 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 429172 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 433633 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 433634 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 433635 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 433636 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 438081 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 463635 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 463733 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 463753 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 463845 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 463864 :
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????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 532499 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 541566 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 541570 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 541691 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 541693 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 550878 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 551609 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 553133 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 559422 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 559428 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 562879 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 564462 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 564468 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : IN 564475 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : KH /GP/00082 SG :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : KH /GRRP.SG/00029 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : KR 716,142 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : KR 934,671 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : KR 947,234 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MO J/002075 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MO J/003489 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MO J/003619 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MO J/004098 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MO J/006352 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MO J/007454 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MO J/008156 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MO J/008982 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MO J/009006 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MO J/009007 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MO J/009008 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 258,980 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 297,667 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 304,576 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 318,296 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 318,297 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 318,298 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 342,823 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 371,677 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 397985 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 398630 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 400314 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MX400314/en) :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 400699 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 400700 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 400701 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 400702 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 403,827 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 406720 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 407173 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 410,075 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 410,077 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 410,080 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 410,081 :
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????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 410,083 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 410,084 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 410,085 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 410,086 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 410,087 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 411618 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 411624 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : MX 413083 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : NG F/P/2022/153 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : NG F/P/2022/154 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : NG F/P/2022/156 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : NG F/P/2022/159 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : NG F/PT/C/2023/7894 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : NG F/PT/PCT/2024/13532 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : NG/PT/C/2020/4909 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : NG/PT/PCT/2021/5867 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : OM 00506 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : SA 20224 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : SA 20365 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : SA 20748 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : SA 20815 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : SG 10202102102T :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : SG 10202300347X :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : SG 10202301501X :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : SG 10202400240V :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : SG 10202400241Q :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : SG 10202401555W :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : SG 11201902914S :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 100 12388 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 1-0014619 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 10014713 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 1-2019-02282 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 1-2021-07208 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 1-2022-00255 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 1-2022-00257 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 1-2022-00262 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 1-2022-00263 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 1-2022-01418 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 1-2022-01419 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 1-2022-01422 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 1-2022-01423 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 12809 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 22362 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 28918 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 30446 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 31201 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 31202 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 31203 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 31204 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 31205 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 31206 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 31207 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 32207 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 32336 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 35211 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 35977 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 41821 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 41822 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 41823 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 41824 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 42191 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 42194 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 43301 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 44404 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 44405 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 44406 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 44407 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 44408 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 44927 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 45110 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 45418 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 46044 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 48260 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 49296 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 49602 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 50057 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 51042 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 51124 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 51979 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 52235 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 52382 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 52384 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 52455 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 52640 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 52645 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : VN 53518 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : ZA 2009/06749 :
????-??-?? : ????-??-?? : ZA 2009/06982 :
kurkosdr
14th December 2025, 20:42
Thanks!
Also:
Wow! So many patents without a prior art date or priority date, and in fact not even a Google Patents page, I didn't expect Google Patents to have such massive blind spots (with fairly large countries such as India and Mexico being largely in the blind spot).
To deduce the countries that are "unsafe", you can use the following chart to convert two-letter code to country: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/parameters/google-patents/countries
The exception is the "AP" code, which is a regional intellectual property organization/office (kind of like the EPO, but for some African countries), so, to find the countries that the AP patents affect, you have to use the following list: https://www.aripo.org/member-states
And then there is this "ET PT173 B1" patent, which I have no clue what it corresponds to (and any kind of Googling I did and any searches I did on Espacenet turned up nothing), so if anyone knows, please post.
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When it comes to patents with a known prior art date or priority date, the only ones before March 2005 are the following:
????-??-?? : 2002-04-15 : MY 140969 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MY140969/en) : Panasonic Corp+
????-??-?? : 2002-04-15 : MY 141699 (https://patents.google.com/patent/MY141699/en) : Panasonic Corp+
And I find those two weird. Their filing date (2003 year) implies they should have already expired, but VIA-LA lists them as non-expired. Weird.
Sunspark
14th December 2025, 21:57
More information is needed. It's possible they're something like a submarine patent. It's one where issuance and publication is delayed.
One of the MY ones is filed 2003 but not published until 2010. Looking at a CY one, filed 2011, published 2015.
Will be interesting to see if people decide they don't care anymore, or if they want 100% global publications to be clear first. If the latter, it's going to be a long wait because there are many countries in the world that haven't had a filing yet.
kurkosdr
15th December 2025, 00:08
More information is needed. It's possible they're something like a submarine patent. It's one where issuance and publication is delayed.
One of the MY ones is filed 2003 but not published until 2010. Looking at a CY one, filed 2011, published 2015.
Will be interesting to see if people decide they don't care anymore, or if they want 100% global publications to be clear first. If the latter, it's going to be a long wait because there are many countries in the world that haven't had a filing yet.
See? This is what I don't understand. According to the following website:
https://henrygoh.com.sg/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-malaysian-patent-grant-process/
"All Malaysian patents with filing date on or after 01 August 2001 have a maximum term of 20 years, calculated from the filing date. "
There should be no "submarine patents" for patents filed after 01 August 2001 in MY.
I mean, that Malaysian patent you filed in 2003 expired sometime in 2023, right? Yet the ones I mentioned show up as non-expired in VIA-LA's list. Weird.
kurkosdr
20th January 2026, 21:30
Semi-related: VIA-LA published patent lists for the AAC and MPEG-H 3D Audio licensing pools (https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=2027355#post2027355)
I have seen HE-AAC used alongside H.264-encoded video in the wild, and the list may include patents essential for AAC-LC (in Malaysia or wherever), so that makes it semi-related to H.264, I guess.
SeeMoreDigital
22nd January 2026, 00:00
I have seen HE-AAC used alongside H.264-encoded video in the wild, and the list may include patents essential for AAC-LC (in Malaysia or wherever), so that makes it semi-related to H.264, I guess.
It's used in the UK for FTA high definition DVB-T2 broadcasts...
Avclover
11th February 2026, 20:46
my oh my: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jan-ozer_just-stumbled-across-what-looks-like-a-massive-activity-7426979005725347840-pAeI
Z2697
12th February 2026, 15:28
Kinda hilarious.
takla
4th April 2026, 02:25
https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/streaming/h264-streaming-license-fees-jump-from-100000-to-4-5-million
As per usual, american greed knows no limit.
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