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Acer and Asus ordered to halt PC sales in Germany after Nokia wins HEVC patent ruling (www.techspot.com)
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[–] jojowakaki@lemmy.world 26 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This is patent troll right? If I am to trust wikipedia, Nokia had nothing to do with the development of HEVC.

The HEVC format was jointly developed by more than a dozen organisations across the world. The majority of active patent contributions towards the development of the HEVC format came from five organizations: Samsung Electronics (4,249 patents), General Electric (1,127 patents),[10] M&K Holdings (907 patents), NTT (878 patents), and JVC Kenwood (628 patents).[11] Other patent holders include Fujitsu, Apple, Canon, Columbia University, KAIST, Kwangwoon University, MIT, Sungkyunkwan University, Funai, Hikvision, KBS, KT and NEC.[12]

Also:

When the MPEG LA terms were announced, commenters noted that a number of prominent patent holders were not part of the group. Among these were AT&T, Microsoft, Nokia, and Motorola. Speculation at the time was that these companies would form their own licensing pool to compete with or add to the MPEG LA pool

Something doesn't seem right.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 15 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

No, Nokia do own a bunch of patents on it, I'm pretty sure they also created (and have patents on) the HEIF format used in HEIC/AVIF as well.

Edit: search results were failing me, but here's a couple.

https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2013/03/18/h-265hevc-high-quality-video-at-half-the-bandwidth/ https://mspoweruser.com/nokia-details-its-contribution-to-h-265hevc-hints-at-integration-in-devices/

[–] MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de 6 points 8 hours ago

Thanks for doing the search.