ASUS and Acer Are Now Banned from Selling PCs and Notebooks in Germany Following a Court Ruling Regarding H.265/HEVC NOKIA Patent

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Acer and ASUS have been dealt a blow in court, which has now banned the two companies from directly selling certain products in Germany.

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[Grimlakin]

Yeesh how did the makers of the cards or SOCs not get tagged?

 

[DrezKill]

I had no f*cking idea that Nokia owns the patent for H.265/HEVC.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I had no f*cking idea that Nokia owns the patent for H.265/HEVC.

Me neither, plus H.264.

Yeesh how did the makers of the cards or SOCs not get tagged?

They probably paid Nokia's licensing fees.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I recommend folks click on the link I put in the post going to Nokia's page regarding it's licensing. Basically the Nokia most of us know (cameras and copiers - they still make those) has transformed itself over the last 20 years and heavily expanded into video codecs. I had no clue until this story came up and was really surprised how deeply invested they are (to the tune of billions, also in the post).

 

[Brian_B]

Is Nokia still owned by Microsoft?

 

[igor_kavinski]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nokia/comments/1bqxvts/how_come_nokia_company_is_still_alive

 

[Grimlakin]

So Nokia is to cellular what... what was that huge telecom company... Nortel that's the one was to wired infrastructure.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Funny I was reminded they had been in the phone business this morning when watching an ad for something else and I spotted one in the ad.