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Looks like a good number of the H.265 patents will be expiring in about 10 years now, so maybe 2033 would be good. A major defect is really in the policies tha
by fuzzfactor 3y ago
Looks like a good number of the H.265 patents will be expiring in about 10 years now, so maybe 2033 would be good.
A major defect is really in the policies that allow standardization to include encumbered technologies.
Otherwise consensus standards among established leaders which do not require the removal of encumbrances before standardization, will give rise to what we have now as "patent pools" where only well-established organizations can deploy the standard after is is approved.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoProblem: it's up to many dozens of court systems to decide what encumbers what. It's not a defect of the standardization effort: it's the everyday worldwide pandemonium of corporate goliaths given endless opportunities to court shop. Patents are broken inside jurisdictions, but across jurisdictions this is an uncoordinated mess that can never be won.