Ensuring Patent Protection for Audio and Video Data Compression Technologies in New Mobile Devices

Our Client & Their Goals

Our Client, a major manufacturer of mobile devices, had developed patented audio and video compression technologies, which can encode larger amounts of unique information within smaller packets of data. Our Client’s future market expansion would depend on their use of conflict-free patented technologies, and they wanted to ensure that their new solutions did not infringe on any existing patents. However, the patent space surrounding the telecommunications industry is complex, so they needed to quickly obtain an expert assessment of any potential conflicts.

In order to provide an attractive product, our Client also needed to license some fundamental technologies, including several widely used audio and video compression technologies. Therefore, they also required an assessment of the fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) value of these patented technologies.

We helped our Client by recruiting experts capable of assessing their patents and providing them with the technological and financial analysis they required for ensuring sufficient patent protection for their compression technologies.

More than 100 conflicting patents were ultimately assessed, and our team identified all potential issues posed by these patents. Then, our team provided valuable recommendations to our Client regarding the best ways to address these potentially conflicting patents.

CamIn's Solution

We assembled two sub-teams of experts who possessed knowledge of all relevant aspects of audio and video compression technology and of financial FRAND patent value assessments.

Our technology sub-team assessed all relevant technology patents by conducting relevant prior art searches and gap, essentiality, and validity analyses. More than 100 conflicting patents were ultimately assessed, and our team identified all potential issues posed by these patents. Then, our team provided valuable recommendations to our Client regarding the best ways to address these potentially conflicting patents.

Our financial sub-team simultaneously worked to assess patent licensing agreements and designed a comprehensive financial model to determine the FRAND value of the required licensed technologies. This model accounted for a combination of relevant data, including previous agreements, market penetration, and network usage.

The Impact

Our Client was then prepared to develop products based on their new solutions, as our work had identified all potential risks posed by other patented technologies. Our work ensured that our Client’s patented technology will be conflict-free, that they can negotiate favourable terms to license other relevant patented technologies, and that they will avoid litigation problems.