H.265 Patent Pool Adds Vivo as Newest Smartphone Member

Vivo joined the Access Advance patent pool, gaining use of more than 16,000 patents essential to the H.265 video codec standard, said the pool's licensing administrator Thursday. With the addition of Vivo, the program “has now licensed a substantial majority of the smartphone market, including many of the largest smartphone manufacturers,” said Access Advance CEO Peter Moller. Vivo is joining as "a licensee only," emailed Moller. "They don't have (to their current knowledge) any HEVC essential patents," he said of the High Efficiency Video Coding standard.