On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Eoin Kilfeather <ekilfeather at dmc.dit.ie> wrote: > Forgive my ignorance, I Am Not A Lawyer, but what are the consequences > of a submarine patent on Theora and/or Vorbis? If a browser supports > it in good faith, and subsequently a troll successfully introduces a > patent challenge, would the consequence not be that the codec would > simply be dropped with the next maintenance release of the browser? In > fact a court would surely allow a reasonable time for transition. OK, > annoying that content providers need to ?re-encoded in a "legal" > codec, but that is at least a work-flow susceptible to automation. I > can't see a court giving financial "damages" for infringement of a > patent which hasn't surfaced since <video> was proposed at the end of > 2006. Never doubt the stupidity and banality of patent judges in America. ~TJReceived on Tuesday, 30 March 2010 07:31:44 UTC
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