ETRI patent challenged in the EPO

On August 8, 2022, Unified filed an opposition proceeding against EP 3767952, owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The EP’952 patent relates to an apparatus for encoding image data and an apparatus for decoding image data, where the encoding/decoding makes use of motion vector coding for image compression, particularly an inter prediction method.

EP’952 is related to patents that have been designated essential to HEVCA and has also been identified as potentially essential to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard.

Fill out the form below to read the entire filing. Unified is represented by Owain Staines at HGF Law and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ellyar Barazesh.