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After so many years that idea should be laughed at at court. Patents are one thing but waiting for your "free" codec to gain usage across the world only then to
by choeger 4y ago
After so many years that idea should be laughed at at court. Patents are one thing but waiting for your "free" codec to gain usage across the world only then to reap the benefits should be called fraud.
- Gigachad 4y agoIt’s also just a sign of how broken the system is. These companies didn’t contribute anything to the creation of opus. The codec would have still existed since it was designed explicitly to avoid existing patents.
- jpalomaki 4y agoI've understood the trademark system works so that you need to constantly defend your trademarks to keep them valid. Maybe something similar should be applied to patents.
- gruez 4y agoUnfortunately I don't know of any legal theory that would actually cause a judge to rule this as fraud. Unlike trademarks for instance, there's no requirement for you to actively defend a patent to have it be valid.
- mindslight 4y agoEstoppel. The development process was highly publicized and the relevant entities surely knew about the call for patent claims. And possibly laches. Patents are highly dependent on the technological context of when they're written. The Opus development process deliberately sought to avoid existing patents, and trying to reverse these judgements a decade later is disingenuous.