Half a year since Amazon signed up as a licensee to the HEVC Advance Patent Pool from Access Advance, the pool’s licensors have mounted a patent infringement lawsuit against Roku. It looks like Amazon, as well as hardware makers Dell and Lenovo, saw which way this was heading when signing up back in December 2023. Say what you like about HEVC (H.265), but the fact is that the MPEG codec will not stand the same test of time or anywhere near the ubiquity as its much older sister AVC (H.264). Therefore, HEVC patent holders look increasingly desperate to squeeze patent royalties from HEVC before those patents eventually run out, or before most of the major silicon providers and streaming services…