Via-LA
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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.
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.
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.
H.265/HEVC licensors
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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.
| 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
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The following organizations hold one or more patents in Via-LA's H.264/AVC patent pool.
VC-1 licensors
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The following organizations hold one or more patents in the Via-LA VC-1 patent pool. LG has now removed their 1 remaining patent (US8428141) from the pool but it has been kept listed in the table below as it is still a valid patent and expires on 2028-08-24.
| Organization | Active patents | Expired patents | Total patents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 37 | 435 | 472 |
| Panasonic | 1 | 121 | 122 |
| LG Electronics | 1 | 95 | 96 |
| Samsung Electronics | 1 | 95 | 96 |
| Dolby Laboratories | 3 | 102 | 105 |
| 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 | 0 | 18 | 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) | 43 | 1220 | 1263 |