Via-LA is an American company based in San Francisco, California that licenses patent pools covering essential patents.
Via Licensing Corp acquired MPEG-LA in April 2023 and formed a new patent pool administration company called Via Licensing Alliance.
In April 2023, in what is thought to be the first time that two pool administrators have merged into one, Via Licensing Corp acquired MPEG-LA and formed a new patent pool administrator called Via Licensing Alliance. Via President Heath Hoglund will serve as president of the new company. MPEG-LA CEO Larry Horn will serve as a Via-LA advisor.
In April 2025, three licensors of the Via LA HEVC Patent Pool (M&K Holdings, Gensquare, and Tagivan II) filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft in a German court, alleging unlicensed use of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) technology in several Microsoft products.
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The following organizations hold one or more patents in the Via-LA H.265/HEVC patent pool, this list does not include patents that have been removed from the patent pool.
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The following organizations hold one or more patents in Via-LA's H.264/AVC patent pool.
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The following organizations hold one or more patents in the Via-LA VC-1 patent pool. LG has now removed their 1 remaining patent from the pool but it has been kept listed in the table below as it is still a valid patent.