MPEG LA is taking enforcement action against Samsung Electronics GmbH, claiming infringement of patents in its HEVC Patent Portfolio Licence.
The patents are essential to HEVC (also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2) digital video coding standard used in products that encode and decode video for Internet, television and mobile transmission, reception and use.
According to the complaints, brought in Landgericht Düsseldorf, Samsung Electronics GmbH’s parent Samsung Electronics Co Ltd was both Licensor and Licensee to MPEG LA’s HEVC Patent Portfolio Licence from autumn 2014 until the agreement was terminated in March 2020. However, MPEG LA sats Samsung has continued to offer products including smartphones, tablets and televisions in Germany that use patent protected HEVC methods without a licence.
