Patent No.14945, granted to Holdings Inc. (KR) invalidated at the request of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR)

The Patent (VN) No.14945 (application No.VN 1-2013-00607 filed on July 29, 2011; Patent No.1-0014945-000 granted on December 14, 2015; PCT Filing Number and Date PCT/KR2011/005592 2011.07.29; Applicant: M&K HOLDINGS INC.) entitled “Prediction Block Generating Device” is a device determines additional information for generating a prediction block included in an additional information container received, and an intra-prediction mode of a present prediction unit using valid intra-prediction mode candidate information of the present prediction unit; generates reference pixels that are not in a usable location for generating intra-prediction blocks by using usable reference pixels; adaptively filters the reference pixels close to the present prediction unit on the basis of the determined intra-prediction mode of the present prediction unit or size information of the present prediction unit; and generates prediction blocks of the present prediction unit using the reference pixels that respond to the determined intra-prediction mode of the present prediction unit. Therefore, the present invention can enhance image compressibility by generating prediction blocks close to the original image.

Pham & Associates (the Applicant), authorized by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Korea), filed an application with the IP Vietnam (Application No. DNI-2019-00020 dated January 30, 2019) to request the invalidation of the said Patent on the grounds that the invention does not meet the protection requirements specified in Point b, Clause 1, Article 96 of the IP Law, namely the invention lacks of novelty at the time of the patent filing; claims 1 to 6 of this patent are not met inventive conditions as they had been disclosed in the below cited documents D1-D4 published before the patent application’s priority date:

· D1 Document: HEVC (High Efficient Video Coding),  JCTVC-D503 standard (Draft 2, verson 2) published on 15/04/2011 at http://phenix.int-evry.fr/jct/.

· D2 Document: HEVC, JCTVC-E603 standard (Draft 3, version 8) published on  27/06/2011 at http://phenix.int-evry.fr/jct/.

· D3 Document: HEVC, JCTVC-D109 standard (Proposal, version 5) published on 23/01/2011 at http://phenix.int-evry.fr/jct/.

· D4 Document: HEVC, JCTVC-D282 standard (Proposal, version 3) published on  21/01/2011 at http://phenix.int-evry.fr/jct/.