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nikanj 34 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired

It's so weird to look at the patents list for H.264 and see multiple patents granted after the H.264 specification was released. Was the situation similar for MPEG-4?

wmf 34 days ago | [–]

The patent pool system is really bad. There's no incentive to weed out bad patents.

userbinator 34 days ago | [–]

Those patents may not necessarily be required to encode or decode, if they're just a new way to implement some part of the specification.

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