By Douglas Clarke-Williams ( August 13, 2026, 19:53 GMT | Comment) -- Licensing of High Efficiency Video Coding, or HEVC, video coding patents has been mired in years of litigation across multiple jurisdictions, as the growing popularity of streaming media has met the thicket of patents involved in making the technology work. But the sector might soon be fighting yesterday’s war as a new generation of AI-powered video coding technology comes on the scene.The notoriously knotty array of patents behind the HEVC video coding technology, which underpins the most popular streaming services, has been fertile ground for litigation for several years. But work is already progressing on new standards for neural network-based video compression, and with a range of major companies accumulating patents in the field, the emerging sector might need to prepare itself for similar court battles....
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