- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:16:23 -0700
On May 19, 2010, at 21:48 , Sir Gallantmon (???????) wrote: > > Google's patent license states that anyone that attempts to sue over VP8 will automatically lose their patent license. That's a huge deterrent. only to potential practitioners...not trolls :-( (i.e. non-practicing patent owners) > AFAIR, the VC-1 codec didn't have that kind of clause, which caused the debacle that led to the VC-1 patent pool... I don't recall, but I would be surprised. This is a pretty common defensive clause. David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100520/aa176e46/attachment.htm>
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