Have the patents for VP9 expired yet?
NO! ☹️ (however, these patents may not be needed for VP9, they may just be a speculation) 🙂
The VP9 codec was created by the AOM (Alliance for Open Media), they stated that the codec violates no patents when it was ratified.
Since then however Sisvel has created a patent pool of companies that claim that VP9 violates their patents. This Wiki article lists these patents, derived from: https://www.sisvel.com/licensing-programmes/audio-and-video-coding-decoding/video-coding-platform/#tab-patents . There could be patents registered elsewhere which are not listed here. Their dates will be added later.
Note that AOMedia released a statement about Sisvel patent list (https://aomedia.org/press%20releases/the-alliance-for-open-media-statement/).
This is not legal advice. Here's my legal advice: call your lawyer.
European patents[edit]
- 2025-08-16: EP 1781042
- 2030-06-17: EP 2443835 - lawsuit
- 2031-05-12: EP 2571269 - lawsuit
- 2031-05-12: EP 3119091 - lawsuit
- 2031-05-12: EP 3128755 - lawsuit
- 2031-08-17: EP 2608540 - on November 2023, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 3402195 which is in the same family of EP 2608540.
US patents[edit]
US patents only, look them up on https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair. https://www.uspto.gov/patent/laws-and-regulations/patent-term-calculator contains instructions for calculating when patents expire.
Patent no. | Filing or 371 ©Date | Earliest Publication Date | Issue Date of Patent | Expires | Patent holder | Title of Invention | Note |
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US10297008 | 2025-11-07 | ||||||
US9584816 | 2024-04-14 | lawsuit | |||||
US10499058 | 2025-05-11 | ||||||
US9294771 | 2025-12-11 | ||||||
US10362311 | 2032-06-20 | lawsuit | |||||
US9319694 | 2032-06-20 | lawsuit | |||||
US9661335 | 2032-06-20 | lawsuit | |||||
US9654783 | 2032-06-20 | lawsuit | |||||
US7450641 | 2024-10-31 | lawsuit | |||||
US7319415 | 2025-05-04 | ||||||
US10178393 | 2030-01-18 | same family as of US8867854 | |||||
US10321137 | 2029-11-21 | same family as of US8867854 | |||||
US8867854 | 2031-05-16 | invalid, see https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2021/10/8/another-etri-chinese-patent-held-invalid and https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/ptab/case/IPR2020-01048 | |||||
US9369737 | 2029-10-01 | same family as of US8867854 | |||||
US9407937 | 2029-10-01 | same family as of US8867854 | |||||
US9942554 | 2029-10-01 | same family as of US8867854 | |||||
US10129549 | 2031-04-11 | lawsuit | |||||
US10123025 | 2031-04-11 | lawsuit | |||||
US10148968 | 2031-04-11 | lawsuit | |||||
US7515635 | 2026-02-13 | confirmed invalid in March 2023: https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2023/4/17/ip-bridge-patent-confirmed-invalid | |||||
US8009733 | 2026-09-03 | same family as of US7515635 | |||||
US8184697 | 2026-09-10 | same family as of US7515635 | |||||
US8204112 | 2026-10-08 | same family as of US7515635 | |||||
US8223841 | 2026-11-05 | same family as of US7515635 | |||||
US9402087 | 2030-11-05 | ||||||
US10051283 | 2031-11-27 | ||||||
US10298954 | 2029-11-04 | ||||||
US9654798 | 2029-11-10 | ||||||
US9674551 | 2029-09-01 | ||||||
US9838696 | 2029-09-01 | ||||||
US9854250 | 2029-09-01 | ||||||
US8818114 | 2031-03-18 | ||||||
US9148660 | 2029-09-24 | ||||||
US9491467 | 2029-09-24 | ||||||
US9369714 | 2030-05-13 | ||||||
US9992510 | 2030-01-07 | ||||||
US9070179 | 2030-01-15 | ||||||
US9363531 | 2030-01-15 | ||||||
US9420304 | 2030-01-15 | ||||||
US9445118 | 2030-01-15 | ||||||
US8976863 | 2032-02-24 | ||||||
US9392300 | 2029-10-23 | ||||||
US9781445 | 2030-06-27 | ||||||
US9794590 | 2030-06-27 | ||||||
US9955182 | 2030-06-13 | ||||||
US9137546 | 2031-01-19 | ||||||
US9628815 | 2029-10-07 | ||||||
US9565444 | 2030-10-01 | ||||||
US9549190 | 2032-12-30 | ||||||
US9609334 | 2030-10-01 | ||||||
US9609335 | 2030-10-01 | ||||||
US9479791 | 2031-05-25 | lawsuit | |||||
US9532065 | 2031-05-12 | lawsuit | |||||
US9787988 | 2031-05-12 | lawsuit | |||||
US9113138 | 2032-06-14 | ||||||
US9113139 | 2031-11-12 | ||||||
US9143777 | 2030-09-24 | ||||||
US9154779 | 2030-09-24 | ||||||
US9294768 | 2030-09-24 | ||||||
US9392282 | 2030-09-24 | ||||||
US9148659 | 2030-09-24 | ||||||
US9973753 | 2031-03-31 | ||||||
US10390011 | 2031-03-31 | ||||||
US10412385 | 2031-03-31 |