In addition to the financial burdens of HEVC licensing, the risk of lawsuits from patent holders can deter companies from ...

On March 23, 2026, Dolby filed a lawsuit against Snap, the developer and operator of Snapchat, alleging that Snapchat's video conversion, encoding, and decoding processes infringe on Dolby's patents.

The takeaway: For years, the industry has touted AV1 as the codec capable of sidestepping the royalty and litigation thicket surrounding HEVC. Now, a new lawsuit from Dolby Laboratories against Snap ...

Access Advance LLC today announced that Sharp Corporation, CB Cline, SK Planet, and Telechips, Inc have joined the Access Advance Video Distribution Patent Pool (VDP Pool) as Licensors, further ...

Vivo has confirmed that the upcoming X300 Ultra will support the APV codec. This follows in the footsteps of the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, which was the first device to support the feature. The APV ...

A court decision in Germany has temporarily blocked Acer and ASUS from selling certain PCs directly in the country, following a patent dispute with Nokia. The ruling comes from the Munich I Regional ...

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WILMINGTON, Del.—InterDigital today announced the acquisition of Deep Render, an artificial intelligence startup with a team of AI experts focused on video codecs. Financial details were not ...

With the release of the iPhone 12 Pro last year, Apple introduced a new image codec called Apple ProRAW for professional users who want to do more with their images. And this year, with the iPhone 13 ...