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should be this I believe: https://lwn.net/Articles/910978/ https://lwn.net/Articles/910978/ [Ed.] Somewhat reminiscent of the crypto export restrictions around

should be this I believe: https://lwn.net/Articles/910978/ https://lwn.net/Articles/910978/ [Ed.] Somewhat reminiscent of the crypto export restrictions around the millennium — with software patents being invalid in the EU (and a bunch of other jurisdictions), nothing would hinder the inclusion of these features in software distributed there... [Ed. 2] Really reminiscent… it's only few jurisdictions where software patents are valid to a large degree - I found only the US, South Korea, and Armenia. Most other countries have significant hurdles or outright do not accept software patents.

jcranmer 4y ago
> with software patents being invalid in the EU (and a bunch of other jurisdictions), nothing would hinder the inclusion of these features in software distributed there I know the EU supposedly bans software patents, but looking at the patent pool for H.265, there's an awful lot of EU patents in there: https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/hevc-att1.pdf https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/hevc-att1.pdf.
- eqvinox 4y ago
  Yeah, the problem in the EU is that they are lax in checks during the patent grant process and you have to sue to invalidate those patents later, even though they never should have been granted :(