Landscape Analysis of declared ATSC 3.0 Patent Families
Avanci launched Avanci Broadcast, a patent licensing platform for the ATSC 3.0 broadcasting
standard on March 7, 2023.1 According to Avanci, “The new platform licenses the ATSC 3.0
essential patents of ETRI, LG Electronics, ONE Media, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, Sharp
and Sun Patent Trust, which collectively represent more than 70% of all patent families
containing ATSC 3.0 declared essential patents, and the Avanci Broadcast platform is expected
to grow with the addition of several more licensors in the coming months.”
ATSC 3.0 is a standard developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee. It is adopted
for terrestrial television broadcasting in countries such as the US, Canada, Mexico, Korea,Jamaica, among others. In the ATSC 3.0 licensing market, Avanci as well as MPEG LA operate apool for this technology.
We have conducted a landscape analysis of the declared ATSC 3.0 patent families by using
IPlytics Platform. In this analysis, the declared ATSC 3.0 patent families means patent families
declared by applicants as essential patents to ATSC. The main purpose of this analysis is toidentify the coverage of the two patent pools: Avanci and MPEG LA, with respect to thedeclared ATSC 3.0 patent families.
The total number of declared ATSC 3.0 patent families is 2,866 as of March 24, 2023. Table 1
shows the number of ATSC 3.0 patent families declared by Avanci Licensors2 and MPEG LALicensors3. Avanci Licensors cover 75.6% of the total number of declared ATSC 3.0 patentfamilies. MPEG LA Licensors cover 14.6% of the total number of declared ATSC 3.0 patentfamilies. Avanci and MPEG LA Licensors cover 86.4% of the total number of declared ATSC 3.0
patent families. Since Panasonic, Sun Patent Trust and One Media are overlapping licensors forAvanci and MPEG LA as in Table 3, the total number of patent families is not simply the sum upof the number of patent families of Avanci and MPEG LA Licensors.

1

https://www.avanci.com/2023/03/07/avanci-broadcast-launched-as-one-stop-licensing-platform-foratsc-3-0-standard/
2 https://www.avanci.com/broadcast/

3 https://www.mpegla.com/programs/atsc-3-0/licensors/

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Table 1: Number of declared ATSC3.0 patent families by Avanci Licensors and MPEG LA Licensors

Table 2 shows the number of declared ATSC 3.0 patent families in each of the top 5 regions.
The US and Korea, which have adopted ATSC 3.0, are the most popular published regions ofdeclared ATSC 3.0 patent families, followed by China, the EPO and Japan, which have notadopted ATSC 3.0.
Table 2: Published region of declared ATSC 3.0 patent families

Table 3 shows the ranking by company of the number of declared ATSC 3.0 patent families.
Samsung Electronics is in the leading position in the number of declared ATSC 3.0 patentfamilies, followed by LG Electronics, Sony and Dolby. Table 3 also includes information of ASTC
3.0 licensors in the patent pools of both Avanci and MPEG LA. The top two companies,
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, both Avanci Licensors, account for 63.1%((1,123+686)/2866) of the total number of declared ATSC 3.0 patent families.

2NGB Corporation | ip-gateway@ngb.co.jp | https://www.ngb.co.jp

Table 3: Number of declared ATSC3.0 patent families by company

Takeaways
What we have learned from this analysis is as follows:1.

Avanci Licensors cover 75.6% of the total number of declared ATSC 3.0 patent families, andMPEG LA Licensors cover 14.6% of the total number of declared ATSC 3.0 patent families asof March 24, 2023.

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The US and Korea are the most popular published regions of declared ATSC 3.0 patentfamilies, followed by China, the EPO and Japan.

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Samsung Electronics is in the leading position in the number of declared ATSC 3.0 patentfamilies, followed by LG Electronics, Sony and Dolby.

Yuji Orita, Director
Toshihiro Nakane, Manager
IP Research Institute
NGB Corporation
March 27, 2023

3NGB Corporation | ip-gateway@ngb.co.jp | https://www.ngb.co.jp