My idea would be a weekend workshop "How to create a modern Video Codec without violating patents" with a walkthrough of the process you would need to innovate

My idea would be a weekend workshop "How to create a modern Video Codec without violating patents" with a walkthrough of the process you would need to innovate there. Since according to the Microsoft vs. Motorola case [0] there are over 2300 patents for h.264 alone you would have to read a pretty big stack of patents before doing any actual work. Then, present a little insight how hard it is to work around all of them and ask the question whether it it is the intention of patents that all innovations need to implement hundreds of time consuming workarounds. Then one could cover whether buying a license for h.264 and creating dependent work is feasible. And of course we have this hilarious example of again a Motorola vs. Microsoft case: Banning Microsoft from selling Windows 7 and the Xbox in germany [1]. There are too many patents relevant to h.264. It kind of worked until now because all of them were kind of at the MPEG-LA and they managed to sell licenses for all of them together but in reality anyone with such a patent who is not directly at the MPEG-LA can sue anybody who uses h.264 in a product. But don't worry, we can suspend the patent system just fine if it affects a big company: > Based on the evidence before it, the court finds that Microsoft has shown that a German injunction enjoining the sale of Microsoft Software and the Microsoft Xbox in the country of Germany will result [in] irreparable harm. Microsoft has provided this court with convincing evidence that it will lose market share, which will be difficult to regain, and suffer harm to its business reputation. I'm sorry, I didn't follow fo a little moment? Infringing patents is just fine if you would be adversely affected by enforcing the law? Wat. [0] http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2012/02/22/google-please-don-t-kill-video-on-the-web.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2... [1] http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoftpri0/2018208947_judge_issues_preliminary_injunction_barring_motoro.html http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoftpri0/20182089...