On November 7, 2022, the European Patent Office revoked all claims of EP 3678097 owned by Dolby International AB. EP’097 is related to patents that have been declared essential to HEVCA and to SISVEL’s AV1 pool. InterDigital VC Holdings has designated its parent, EP 1627359, as essential to the AV1 standard. The EP’097 patent relates to a method for simulating the film grain that would result from the physical process of exposure and development of film in digital video. This filing was a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified is represented by Andrew McGettrick and Susan Keston from HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks, Ashraf Fawzy, and Roshan Mansinghani.

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