Acer and ASUS have paused PC sales in Germany after a court sided with Nokia in a legal battle over High Efficiency Video Coding patents.

Previous iterations of the codec narrative have produced predictable outcomes with incremental efficiency gains, gradual deployment, and long-tail coexistence with previous standards. The same is ...

At the center of the case is the widely used video compression standard HEVC, also known as H.265. Nokia owns several standard-essential patents tied to the ...

Nokia secures injunction over H.265 codec licensing row, though retailers can continue selling existing stock for now.

Auf wiedersehen.

A German court has ordered Acer and ASUS to pause direct sales of laptops and desktop PCs in the country. This comes after a ...

A German court has barred Acer and ASUS from selling PCs using HEVC technology after ruling in favour of Nokia in a FRAND ...

ASUS and Acer have been banned with immediate effect from selling both desktop and laptop PCs in Germany, over a patent ...

After 5 years of work and over 2700 commits against the reference software, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) has ...

Companies that become Licensees of the HEVC Advance program on or before June 30, 2026 will secure current royalty rates for both ongoing royalties and calculation of royalties for past sales. This is ...

HP and Dell has disabled support for the High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in some of their laptops, Ars Technica reports. HEVC is a codec that enables the compression of large videos into ...

BOSTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / October 14, 2025 / Access Advance LLC today announced that certain patent owners in the HEVC Advance and Video Distribution Patent Pools have filed patent infringement ...