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• MPEG LA Expands DisplayPort License Coverage (Monday Apr. 25, 2016)
  LA, LLC has announced that coverage of its DisplayPort Patent Portfolio License was recently updated to include the latest DisplayPort standard specification, VESA DisplayPort Standard, Version 1.4, March 2016.
  
  
• Qualcomm Signs 3G/4G Chinese Patent License Agreement with Hisense (Monday Apr. 25, 2016)
  Qualcomm today announced that it has signed a new 3G and 4G Chinese Patent License Agreement with Hisense Group Co., Ltd. (Hisense).
  
  
• Via Licensing Announces Extended High Efficiency AAC Patent Pool (Monday Apr. 18, 2016)
  Via Licensing Corporation announced today that a patent pool license for Extended High Efficiency AAC (xHE-AAC) is in the final stage of development.
  
  
• Qualcomm Signs 3G/4G Chinese Patent License Agreement with Yulong (Monday Apr. 18, 2016)
  Under the terms of the agreement, Qualcomm has granted Yulong a royalty-bearing patent license to develop, manufacture and sell 3G WCDMA and CDMA2000 (including EV-DO) and 4G LTE (including "3-mode" GSM, TD-SCDMA and LTE-TDD) terminals for use in China.
  
  
• HEVC Advance Expands License Agreement (Monday Apr. 18, 2016)
  HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that, in response to market demand, it has expanded its Patent License coverage to include a wide range of commercial products, which will be added to the existing royalty rate structure in the Connected Home and Other Device category.
  
  
• Via Licensing and Pegatron Settle Patent License Dispute Concerning AAC Essential Patents (Monday Apr. 04, 2016)
  Via Licensing Corporation and Pegatron Corporation have settled litigation brought by Via in September 2015 concerning Pegatron’s breach of its AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) Patent License Agreement.
  
  
• InterDigital and NEC Corporation Extend and Expand Patent License Agreement (Monday Apr. 04, 2016)
  InterDigital today announced that its patent holding subsidiaries have amended their worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty bearing patent license agreement with NEC Corporation ("NEC")
  
  
• France Brevets licenses NFC Patents to Sony (Monday Apr. 04, 2016)
  INSIDE Secure today announced that France Brevets and its affiliate NFC Technology, LLC have granted to Sony a worldwide fee-bearing patent license under their NFC Patent Licensing Program for use in Sony’s products.
  
  
• WiLAN Subsidiary Reaches Agreement to License and Sell Patents to TSMC (Friday Apr. 01, 2016)
  WiLAN today announced the Company has entered into a patent license and patent acquisition agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. ("TSMC"), the world's top 'pure play' foundry.
  
  
• Jury Finds in Favor of Synopsys in ATopTech Copyright Infringement Case (Friday Mar. 11, 2016)
  Synopsys today announced that a federal court jury has found that ATopTech infringed Synopsys' copyrights associated with its PrimeTime® static timing analysis suite. In addition, the jury awarded Synopsys $30.4 million in damages.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Successful Against Synopsys' Appeal Of Patent Office Decision (Friday Feb. 12, 2016)
  Mentor Graphics today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld the patentability of claims in U.S. Patent No. 6,240,376 for emulation technology developed by Mentor Graphics®.
  
  
• Western Digital And IBM Announce Patent Acquisition And Cross-License Agreements (Monday Jan. 25, 2016)
  Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that it has acquired more than 100 patent assets from IBM (NYSE: IBM). The parties also entered into a patent cross-license agreement. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
  
  
• MPEG LA Facilitating Development of Enhanced Voice Services Patent Pool License (Thursday Jan. 21, 2016)
  MPEG LA announced today that in response to market demand, a number of companies responsible for developing the Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) codec for the 3GPP’s 4G LTE standard have been meeting, with MPEG LA’s assistance, to decide the terms of a worldwide license offering one-stop access to coverage under their essential EVS patents as a convenient alternative to negotiating separate licenses with individual patent owners.
  
  
• HEVC Advance Begins Issuing Licenses (Wednesday Jan. 20, 2016)
  HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced it has begun accepting requests for licenses to the HEVC/H.265 worldwide essential patents of its licensor companies.
  
  
• WiLAN Subsidiary, North Star Innovations, Inc., Enters Into License Agreement With GLOBALFOUNDRIES (Tuesday Jan. 19, 2016)
  WiLAN today announced that the Company's subsidiary, North Star Innovations, Inc., has entered into a patent license agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc..
  
  
• WiLAN Subsidiary Enters Into License Agreement With GLOBALFOUNDRIES (Monday Jan. 11, 2016)
  WiLAN today announced that the Company's subsidiary, Polaris Innovations Limited, has entered into a patent license agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., for patents related to processes used in its foundry services and patents related to application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) products.
  
  
• WiLAN Subsidiary Enters into License Agreement with Toshiba (Wednesday Dec. 30, 2015)
  WiLAN today announced that the Company's subsidiary, Collabo Innovations, Inc., has entered into a patent license agreement with Toshiba Corporation relating to image sensing technology, which is used in electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets and cameras.
  
  
• WiLAN and NEC Enter Wireless License (Wednesday Dec. 23, 2015)
  WiLAN today announced that NEC Corporation has entered into a license agreement to WiLAN's wireless patent portfolio including Wi-Fi, HSPA, CDMA and LTE-related technologies.
  
  
• Ericsson and Apple sign global patent license agreement, settle litigation (Monday Dec. 21, 2015)
  Ericsson and Apple have agreed on a global patent license agreement between the two companies. The agreement includes a cross license that covers patents relating to both companies' standard-essential patents (including the GSM, UMTS and LTE cellular standards), and grants certain other patent rights. In addition, the agreement includes releases that resolve all pending patent-infringement litigation between the companies.
  
  
• WiLAN Announces Patent Acquisition From Freescale Semiconductor (Wednesday Nov. 04, 2015)
  WiLAN announces that it has acquired more than 3,300 patents from Freescale Semiconductor.
  
  
• Apple loses patent lawsuit to University of Wisconsin, faces hefty damages (Thursday Oct. 15, 2015)
  Apple Inc could be facing up to $862 million in damages after a U.S. jury on Tuesday found the iPhone maker used technology owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's licensing arm without permission in chips found in many of its most popular devices.
  
  
• TSMC Wins Lawsuit Against Ex-Employee Now at Samsung (Tuesday Aug. 25, 2015)
  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest chip foundry, has won a lawsuit against a former R&D employee who leaked secrets including 28-nm process technology to Samsung, South Korea’s largest company.
  
  
• Via Licensing Issues Call for MPEG-H 3D Audio Patents (Friday Aug. 21, 2015)
  Via Licensing Corporation, the leading administrator of licensing programs for standardized audio technologies, today announced a call for patents that are essential to the practice of the MPEG-H 3D Audio standard.
  
  
• MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents to Organize Joint License for MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) (Monday Jul. 27, 2015)
  World licensing leader MPEG LA, LLC today announced a call for patents essential to the MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standards for the purpose of offering the market efficient access to this important technology.
  
  
• MPEG LA Expands AVC License Coverage (Wednesday Jul. 15, 2015)
  MPEG LA, LLC has announced that coverage of its AVC Patent Portfolio License was updated on May 15, 2015, to be consistent with the latest AVC Standard specification.
  
  
• IBM, Microsoft, ARM, BAE Systems, Shazam, Patent Properties, Conversant, and Finjan Back ORoPO - the Open Register of Patent Ownership Launched Today (Monday Jun. 15, 2015)
  A group of leaders in Intellectual Property and Open Data has today launched ORoPO, the world's first Open Register of Patent Ownership. Voluntary, non-profit and freely accessible online, ORoPO offers a simple solution to significant problems with the accuracy of current patent ownership records, and already includes details of patents owned by its founder members.
  
  
• Patent Office Grants Mentor Graphics Petition to Rule Synopsys Emulation Patent Claims Unpatentable (Friday Jun. 12, 2015)
  Mentor Graphics today announced that it scored a victory over the last remaining patent infringement allegation made against it by Synopsys. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed with Mentor Graphics’ assertion that certain claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,836,420 owned by Synopsys, Inc. are unpatentable.
  
  
• Samsung Licenses WiLAN Semiconductor Technology (Wednesday Jun. 03, 2015)
  WiLAN announced that Samsung and WiLAN's wholly-owned subsidiary, Polaris, have signed a multi-year license agreement related to the Qimonda patent portfolio acquired by WiLAN from Infineon
  
  
• WiLAN Acquires Qimonda Patent Portfolio from Infineon (Tuesday Jun. 02, 2015)
  WiLAN announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Polaris Innovations Limited ("Polaris"), has acquired, from Infineon Technologies AG ("Infineon"), the vast majority of Qimonda AG's ("Qimonda") patent portfolio.
  
  
• Google Joins Via Licensing's LTE Patent Pool (Monday Apr. 13, 2015)
  Via Licensing Corporation today announced that Google Inc. has joined the growing roster of global companies participating in Via's groundbreaking LTE (Long Term Evolution) Patent Pool, which aggregates LTE wireless patents from multiple patent holders for the purpose of offering fair, predictable and cost-effective royalties for LTE patents.