By Modupe Gbadeyanka
Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company, Huawei, has been sued by several patent owners in MPEG LA’s AVC Patent Portfolio License for allegedly infringing patents essential to the AVC/H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) digital video coding standard used in mobile devices and other products.
MPEG LA announced on Wednesday that several patent owners in MPEG LA’s AVC Patent Portfolio License have filed patent enforcement actions in the Landgericht Düsseldorf, Germany against Huawei Technologies Deutschland GmbH.
According to the complaints, Huawei offers mobile phone products in Germany, which allegedly use patent-protected AVC methods without licenses with the individual patent holders or a portfolio license that includes these patents offered by MPEG LA.
The suits seek monetary damages and injunctions.
MPEG LA is the world’s leading provider of one-stop licenses for standards and other technology platforms.
Starting in the 1990s, it pioneered the modern-day patent pool helping to produce the most widely used standards in consumer electronics history.
MPEG LA has operated licensing programs for a variety of technologies consisting of more than 13,000 patents in 82 countries with some 230 patent holders and more than 6,000 licensees.
Approximately 1,500 licensees enjoy the worldwide one-stop coverage of MPEG LA’s AVC Patent Portfolio License under essential patents owned by 38 patent holders.
By assisting users with implementation of their technology choices, MPEG LA offers licensing solutions that provide access to fundamental intellectual property, freedom to operate, reduced litigation risk and predictability in the business planning process.
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