Via Licensing Says Dolby Labs Parent Joined Its LTE Patent Pool

Dolby Labs joined Via Licensing's LTE patent pool, said Via, a Dolby subsidiary, in a Wednesday announcement. The pool provides a “fair, transparent and cost-effective license to all essential LTE and LTE-Advanced patents” from Via’s LTE licensors, said the company. The LTE technologies are used in smartphones, tablets, laptop computers, vehicles, voice and data services and the IoT. Other participants in Via’s LTE patent pool are AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, DTVG Licensing, Google, HP, KDDI, MediaTek, Newracom, NTT DoCoMo, SK Telecom, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and ZTE.