There's not much we can do, collectively, except to use the best available probably-unencumbered option, and then wait for the courts to throw the patents away.

There's not much we can do, collectively, except to use the best available probably-unencumbered option, and then wait for the courts to throw the patents away. Google starting to use AV1 in their products in earnest should either trigger the patent suits from the aforementioned "at least one company", or serve as an additional argument in favor of any company that starts using it now.