VVC PATENT LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS
The purpose of this report is to conduct an independent, non-commissioned study on VVC technology and provide a third-party assessment to various stakeholders.
The report provides a comprehensive overview of the patent landscape for VVC technology. The report aims to identify all granted patents worldwide related to VVC technology. It aims to provide actionable and reliable information on VVC patents to its various stakeholders and play a pivotal role in their various campaigns.
The report identifies top assignees, patent filing trend over the years, type of assignees, and key technology areas of filings.
Who will benefit:
- SEP Holders: To know leading assignees, portfolio understanding, and crafting licensing strategies.
- SEP Implementers: To know potential threats, FTO issues, and strategize licensing negotiations.
- Patent Monetization Firms: Discover assignees and their relevant portfolios for monetization purposes.
- Law Firms: To build litigation strategies for assertion or defence purposes.
- Patent Pools: Discover potential licensors to join their pool.
- AI Software Firms: To train their AI models with our comprehensive datasets.
What you’ll get:
- +1. Introduction
- 1.1 Purpose of VVC
- 1.2 Overview of VVC Technologies
- 1.3 VVC Standard Editions along with summary details
- +2. Patent Analysis for Versatile Video Coding (VVC)
- 2.1 Methodology for finding VVC-related patents
- 2.2 Top Assignees Vs. Number of Patents
- 2.3 Patent Priority Year Vs. Number of Patents
- 2.4 Key Area Vs. Number of Patents
- +3. Predictive Coding Technique
- 3.1 Patent Analysis for Predictive-Based Coding Technique in VVC Landscape
- 3.2 Priority Year Trend of Predictive Coding Technique Patents in Previous Years
- 3.3 Top Assignees in Previous Years and Type of Assignees for Predictive Coding Technique
Searches were conducted across multiple patent databases, including paid or freely available databases, utilizing a range of search strings, IPC/CPC classifications, citations, assignees, and specific keywords.
The initial retrieved dataset consists of around 12k patents. After analyzing abstracts, summaries, and claims, over 6,000 patents are categorized for VVC, which are more related to H.266 technology.
Unique patent families of VVC are analyzed for their top assignees in VVC.
The focus is on contributions from major and top assignees such as Qualcomm, Samsung, LG, Huawei, Sony, Panasonic, Tencent, ETRI, Bytedance, Google, MediaTek, canon, SK Telecom etc. The top 20 assignees of VVC-related patents and it is shown that Qualcomm hold a large number of patents for VVC.
We have prepared a comprehensive interactive dashboard to give a holistic overview of all essential patents in the VVC technology domain.

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