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• WiLAN and Kyocera Enter New Wireless License (Thursday Mar. 31, 2022)
  Quarterhill Inc. ("Quarterhill") (TSX: QTRH) (OTCQX: QTRHF) subsidiary Wi‐LAN Inc. ("WiLAN") today announced that Kyocera Corporation has entered into another multi-year wireless license agreement with WiLAN. WiLAN first signed a license with Kyocera in December 2015.
  
  
• Samsung Sued for Infringement of HEVC Essential Patents (Monday Mar. 28, 2022)
  MPEG LA announced today that enforcement actions have been brought in Landgericht Düsseldorf, Germany against Samsung Electronics GmbH ("Samsung") for infringement of patents in MPEG LA’s HEVC Patent Portfolio License.
  
  
• MPEG LA Expands AVC License to Include Complete MVC Coverage (Thursday Mar. 17, 2022)
  MPEG LA, LLC has announced that effective March 16, 2022, its AVC Patent Portfolio License (“AVC License”) has been expanded to provide coverage for the entire Multiview Video Coding (“MVC”) portion of the AVC specifications, including the MVC profiles covered by MPEG LA’s MVC License.
  
  
• US Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit Confirms Finding that Apple Infringes WiLAN Patents (Monday Feb. 07, 2022)
  In a decision issued today by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the "CAFC"), the three-judge panel ruled in WiLAN's favour regarding several of WiLAN's arguments.
  
  
• BrainChip Awarded US Patent for Accessing Learned Functions in an Intelligent Target Device (Wednesday Feb. 02, 2022)
  BrainChip, the world’s first and only commercial producer of neuromorphic artificial intelligence chips, today announced that the US Patents and Trademarks Office has issued a US patent for “Method and a System for Creating Dynamic Neural Function Libraries.”
  
  
• MPEG LA Offers One-Stop License for ATSC 3.0 (Monday Jan. 24, 2022)
  MPEG LA, LLC today announced the availability of the ATSC 3.0 Patent Portfolio License, providing one-stop access to patents that are essential to the next generation broadcast standard developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC).
  
  
• Access Advance Welcomes HONOR to the HEVC Advance Patent Pool (Friday Jan. 21, 2022)
  Access Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that HONOR Device Co., Ltd., a leading global provider of smart devices, has joined the HEVC Advance Patent Pool.
  
  
• Access Advance Announces the Initial Group of VVC/H.266 Video Patent Pool Licensors (Thursday Jan. 13, 2022)
  Access Advance today announced that twenty-eight (28) companies, which together are estimated to account for a substantial percentage of the expected VVC standard essential patent (“SEP”) landscape, have joined as Licensors of the VVC Advance Patent Pool.
  
  
• HEVC Advance Patent Pool Momentum Grows (Monday Jan. 10, 2022)
  With the additional Licensors, the number of HEVC SEPs available for license via the HEVC Advance Patent Pool now exceeds 17,000, which is estimated to represent ~75% of all HEVC SEPs worldwide.
  
  
• WiLAN Subsidiary Polaris Signs License Agreement with Marvell (Monday Jan. 03, 2022)
  Wi-LAN Inc. ("WiLAN"), a Quarterhill Inc. ("Quarterhill") company (TSX: QTRH) (OTCQX: QTRHF), today announced that WiLAN's wholly-owned subsidiary, Polaris Innovations Limited ("Polaris"), has entered into a license agreement granting rights to certain patents owned by Polaris to Marvell Technology Inc. ("Marvell").
  
  
• Access Advance Welcomes Microsoft as a Licensor and Licensee of the HEVC Advance Patent Pool (Monday Dec. 27, 2021)
  Access Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that Microsoft, a global technology leader, has become a Licensor and Licensee of the HEVC Advance Patent Pool.
  
  
• Hisense Enters Into MPEG LA's AVC Patent Portfolio License (Monday Dec. 13, 2021)
  MPEG LA announced today that Hisense International Co., Ltd. (“Hisense”) has become a Licensee to MPEG LA’s AVC Patent Portfolio License (“AVC License”).
  
  
• Micron and UMC Announce Global Settlement (Tuesday Nov. 30, 2021)
  United Microelectronics Corporation (TWSE: 2303; NYSE: UMC) and Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today announced a settlement agreement between the two companies worldwide.
  
  
• WiLAN Subsidiary Acquires Wired Connectivity Patent Portfolio (Thursday Nov. 25, 2021)
  Wi-LAN Inc. ("WiLAN"), a Quarterhill Inc. ("Quarterhill") company (TSX: QTRH) (OTCQX: QTRHF), today announced that one of WiLAN's wholly-owned subsidiaries has acquired a patent portfolio from a publicly-traded leader in semiconductor technologies.
  
  
• Access Advance Welcomes ZTE as a Licensor and Licensee of the HEVC Advance Patent Pool (Thursday Nov. 18, 2021)
  Access Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that ZTE Corporation, a global leader in telecommunications and information technology, has become a Licensor and Licensee of the HEVC Advance Patent Pool.
  
  
• WiLAN Subsidiaries Sign License Agreement with PSMC (Tuesday Jul. 06, 2021)
  Wi-LAN Inc. ("WiLAN"), a Quarterhill Inc. ("Quarterhill") company (TSX: QTRH) (OTCQX: QTRHF), today announced that WiLAN's wholly-owned subsidiaries, Cetus Technologies Inc. ("Cetus") and North Star Innovations Inc. ("North Star"), have granted a license for patents owned by Cetus and North Star to Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation ("PSMC").
  
  
• Access Advance Launches VVC/H.266 Video Patent Pool (Thursday Jul. 01, 2021)
  Building on the success of its HEVC Advance Patent Pool, Access Advance today announced the launch of the VVC Advance Patent Pool and the Multi-Codec Bridging Agreement (“MCBA”)
  
  
• LeapMind Acquires Patents for Extremely Low Bit Quantization Technology (Wednesday Jun. 23, 2021)
  LeapMind Inc. (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Soichi Matsuda), a creator of the standard in edge AI today announced that it has been granted two patents for its extremely low bit quantization technology.
  
  
• First step in its Multi-Codec HEVC and VVC Platform Initiative (Wednesday Jun. 02, 2021)
  Building on the success of its HEVC/H.265 Patent Pool, Access Advance today announced its new HEVC Advance Platform Pool structure. The new and simplified structure will benefit both HEVC implementers (licensees) and HEVC standard essential patent owners (licensors).
  
  
• Weebit Nano continues ReRAM innovation: Files new patents optimising programming of ReRAM (Monday Mar. 08, 2021)
  Weebit Nano Limited (ASX: WBT), a leading developer of next generation memory technologies for the global semiconductor industry, is pleased to announce that it has filed two new patents to further protect the intellectual property of its silicon oxide (SiOx) ReRAM technology.
  
  
• Rambus and AMD Extend Patent License Agreement (Thursday Feb. 25, 2021)
  Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a provider of industry-leading chips and silicon IP making data faster and safer, today announced that it has extended its patent license agreement with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD).
  
  
• MPEG LA Announces Development of VVC (Versatile Video Coding) Pool License (Thursday Jan. 28, 2021)
  MPEG LA announced today the development of a pool license for the next generation video coding standard known as VVC (Versatile Video Coding, also known as H.266 and MPEG-I Part 3) in order to offer the market a convenient one-stop alternative enabling VVC’s wide adoption.
  
  
• WiLAN Subsidiary Acquires Substantial Patent Portfolio from MediaTek (Wednesday Dec. 23, 2020)
  Wi-LAN today announced that WiLAN's wholly-owned subsidiary, Xueshan Technologies Inc.("Xueshan"), has acquired a second portfolio of approximately 2,000 patents from MediaTek Inc. ("MediaTek"), a global fabless semiconductor company, headquartered in Hsinchu,
  
  
• Rambus and Micron Extend Patent License Agreement (Thursday Sep. 03, 2020)
  The extension maintains the existing financial terms of the agreement and provides Micron with a license to the extensive portfolio of Rambus patents until December 1, 2024.
  
  
• Fraunhofer IIS announces licensing program for the new MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile (Monday Jul. 27, 2020)
  Fraunhofer IIS welcomes the release and official adoption of the MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile. The new profile was designed to exactly meet the business and technical needs of the industry.
  
  
• WiLAN Awarded $85.23M in Apple Re-Trial (Monday Jan. 27, 2020)
  In a damages-only re-trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California commenced on January 21, 2020, the jury rendered its verdict today awarding WiLAN $85.23 million in damages owed to WiLAN by Apple Inc. (“Apple”) for the infringement of WiLAN's US patent Nos 8,457,145 and 8,537,757 (“Patents”).
  
  
• Xilinx Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Analog Devices (Tuesday Jan. 21, 2020)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced that it has filed claims against Analog Devices, Inc., asserting infringement of eight United States patents in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
  
  
• Xiaomi and MPEG LA Announce Xiaomi's Signing of MPEG LA's HEVC License (Thursday Jan. 09, 2020)
  MPEG LA’s HEVC License enables worldwide access to essential patent rights for the HEVC digital video coding standard (also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2) providing increased speed and efficiency in consumer products that encode and decode video for Internet, television and mobile transmission, reception and use.
  
  
• UK Judge Finds Conversant Wireless' European Standard-Essential Patents Infringed by Huawei and ZTE (Thursday Jan. 09, 2020)
  Conversant Wireless Licensing S.à r.l., a subsidiary of Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc., announced today that a judgment of the High Court of Justice in London found that claims of two Conversant Wireless LTE standard-essential patents (SEPs) granted by the European Patent Office are essential to the LTE standard. As such, the patents are infringed in the UK by the sales of LTE handsets of defendants Huawei and ZTE.
  
  
• Xilinx Issues Statement in Response to Analog Devices Patent Infringement Lawsuit (Thursday Dec. 05, 2019)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today issued a response to the patent infringement lawsuit filed today by Analog Devices, Inc.