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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-155603"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DLB"
cik: "0001308547"
company_name: "Dolby Laboratories, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-06-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T05:49:33.783873+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dolby Laboratories acquires GE Licensing for $429M cash; accretive to FY2025 EPS

## Summary
- All-cash purchase of GE Licensing from GE Aerospace for $429 million; portfolio includes over 5,000 patents in HEVC/VVC video codec.
- Deal expected to close by end of fiscal 2024 (September 2024), subject to HSR clearance and other customary conditions.
- Acquisition expected to be accretive on a non-GAAP basis to operating margins and EPS in fiscal 2025.
- Dolby confirms no change to its quarterly dividend or stock repurchase program from this transaction.
- GE Aerospace retains its core aerospace/defense IP and the GE brand trademark portfolio.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-155603
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DLB
- cik: 0001308547
- company_name: Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-06-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1308547/000119312524155603/0001193125-24-155603-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1308547/000119312524155603/d699872d8k.htm

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