Via-LA#H.264/MPEG-4 AVC licensors
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Via-LA is an American company based in San Francisco, California that licenses patent pools covering essential patents.
Via Licensing Corp acquired MPEG-LA in April 2023 and formed a new patent pool administration company called Via Licensing Alliance.{{citation |url=https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=158547 |title=Via LA’s Heath Hoglund Talks MPEG LA/Via Licensing Patent Pool Merger |first=Jan |last=Ozer |date=2023-05-08 |publisher=StreamingMedia.com}}
History
In April 2023, in what is thought to be the first time that two pool administrators have merged into one, Via Licensing Corp acquired MPEG-LA and formed a new patent pool administrator called Via Licensing Alliance. Via President Heath Hoglund will serve as president of the new company. MPEG-LA CEO Larry Horn will serve as a Via-LA advisor.{{citation |url= https://www.iam-media.com/article/licensing-acquires-mpeg-la |title=Via Licensing acquires MPEG LA in patent pool merger first |first=Angela |last=Morris |date=2023-05-02 |publisher=IAM}}
In April 2025, three licensors of the Via LA HEVC Patent Pool (M&K Holdings, Gensquare, and Tagivan II) filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft in a German court, alleging unlicensed use of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) technology in several Microsoft products.{{Cite web|last=Lennox|first=Jamie|date=April 2, 2025|access-date=April 17, 2025|title=Microsoft Sued In Germany Over Video Coding Patents |url=https://www.law360.com/articles/2317467/microsoft-sued-in-germany-over-video-coding-patents |url-status=live|website=Law360}}
H.265/HEVC licensors
See also: Access Advance
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
The following organizations hold one or more patents in the Via-LA H.265/HEVC patent pool, this list does not include patents that have been removed from the patent pool nor does it include patents from other patent pools such as Access Advance.
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+H.265/HEVC patent holders (as of November 23 2023) !Organization !Active patents !Expired patents !Total patents |
| GENSQUARE LLC
|1469 |30 |1499 |
| Canon Inc.
|1011 |59 |1070 |
| M&K Holdings
|1055 |1 |1056 |
| KT Corp
|595 |0 |595 |
| Tagivan II
|311 |48 |359 |
| Fujitsu
|148 |1 |149 |
| Apple
|72 |53 |125 |
| IdeaHub Inc.
|120 |0 |120 |
| Maxell
|64 |10 |74 |
| Orange S.A.
|58 |5 |63 |
| IBEX PT Holdings
|62 |0 |62 |
| Vidyo
|43 |0 |43 |
| HUMAX Holdings
|34 |0 |34 |
| Siemens
|10 |19 |29 |
| Industry-Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University
|27 |2 |29 |
| B1 Institute of Image Technology, INC
|26 |0 |26 |
| British Broadcasting Corporation
|22 |0 |22 |
| Funai Electric Co., Ltd
|17 |0 |17 |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in New York City
|0 |16 |16 |
| Hangzhou Boyun Technology Co., Ltd
|12 |0 |12 |
| Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology
|11 |0 |11 |
| SungKyunKwan University Research & Business Foundation
|11 |0 |11 |
| Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK)
|7 |0 |7 |
| Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd
|0 |6 |6 |
| SK Planet
|5 |0 |5 |
| Sky Media Tech, Inc.
|4 |0 |4 |
| Reef LLC
|3 |0 |3 |
| Digital Insights Inc.
|2 |0 |2 |
| Korea Electronics Technology Institute
|1 |0 |1 |
| Alpha Digitech
|1 |0 |1 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
|1 |0 |1 |
| ARRIS Enterprises, LLC, a CommScope Company
|1 |0 |1 |
| Newracom Inc. (Newratek)
|0 |1 |1 |
| Total (All Manufacturers)
|5203 |251 |5454 |
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC licensors
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
The following organizations hold one or more patents in Via-LA's H.264/AVC patent pool.
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+H.264/AVC patent holders (as of May 31 2025) !Organization !Active patents !Expired patents !Total patents |
| Dolby Laboratories
|792 |829 |1621 |
| Panasonic Corporation
|222 |1376 |1598 |
| Godo Kaisha IP Bridge
|42 |1256 |1298 |
| LG Electronics
|59 |940 |1000 |
| Toshiba
|7 |388 |395 |
| Fraunhofer Society
|162 |96 |258 |
| Microsoft
|8 |233 |241 |
| Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (including NTT Docomo)
|9 |229 |238 |
| Sony
|3 |152 |155 |
| Google
|3 |137 |140 |
| GE Video Compression
|0 |136 |136 |
| Fujitsu
|0 |106 |106 |
| Mitsubishi Electric
|3 |97 |100 |
| Tagivan II LLC
|7 |75 |82 |
| B1 Institute of Image Technology
|68 |0 |68 |
| Samsung Electronics
|0 |63 |63 |
| Maxell
|1 |55 |56 |
| Siemens
|11 |40 |51 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V
|2 |45 |47 |
| Vidyo
|41 |2 |43 |
| Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of Korea
|6 |29 |35 |
| Ericsson
|1 |34 |35 |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in New York City
|0 |26 |26 |
| Robert Bosch GmbH
|0 |23 |23 |
| Polycom
|1 |20 |21 |
| Orange S.A.
|13 |7 |20 |
| JVC Kenwood
|10 |8 |18 |
| Apple
|0 |9 |9 |
| Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co.
|0 |6 |6 |
| NEC
|0 |6 |6 |
| Sharp Corporation
|5 |0 |5 |
| Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
|1 |4 |5 |
| Cisco Systems
|1 |3 |4 |
| ZTE Corporation
|0 |2 |2 |
| Cisco Technology
|1 |0 |1 |
| Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
|0 |1 |1 |
| Hewlett-Packard Company
|0 |1 |1 |
| Newracom, Inc.
|0 |1 |1 |
| Vestel Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.
|1 |0 |1 |
| Total (All Manufacturers)
|1480 |6435 |7916 |
VC-1 licensors
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
The following organizations hold one or more patents in the Via-LA VC-1 patent pool. LG has now removed their 3 patents from the pool, But they have been kept listed in the table below as those patents are still valid patents.
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+VC-1 patent holders (as of May 31 2025) !Organization !Active patents !Expired patents !Total patents |
| Microsoft
|56 |416 |472 |
| Panasonic
|5 |117 |122 |
| LG Electronics
|3 |93 |96 |
| Samsung Electronics
|2 |94 |96 |
| Dolby Laboratories
|2 |102 |104 |
| Philips
|0 |77 |77 |
| Hitachi
|0 |60 |60 |
| Mitsubishi Electric
|0 |52 |52 |
| Sony
|0 |28 |28 |
| JVC Kenwood
|0 |25 |25 |
| Toshiba
|0 |21 |21 |
| Fujitsu
|0 |20 |20 |
| Telenor
|0 |19 |19 |
| Siemens
|2 |16 |18 |
| AT&T Intellectual Property
|0 |16 |16 |
| Sun Patent Trust
|0 |12 |12 |
| Sharp Corporation
|0 |8 |8 |
| Orange S.A.
|0 |7 |7 |
| Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
|0 |4 |4 |
| Pantech
|0 |4 |4 |
| ZTE
|0 |1 |1 |
| Total (All Manufacturers)
|70 |1192 |1262 |
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