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Yup. The Dolby/Disney vs Snapchat lawsuit is going to be the first one. So far it's only been filed. The big question is if AOMedia is going to make good on th
by jorvi 6mo ago
Yup. The Dolby/Disney vs Snapchat lawsuit is going to be the first one. So far it's only been filed.
The big question is if AOMedia is going to make good on their Mutually Assured Destruction promise of using their patent and financial war chest to to countersue into oblivion anyone trying to go after AV1 adaptors.
- dmitrygr 6mo agoI would love to live in a world where this happens. I will place big bets that it will, regrettably not happen.
- LelouBil 6mo agoContext: https://www.techspot.com/news/111865-dolby-sues-snap-over-video-compression-patent-claims.html https://www.techspot.com/news/111865-dolby-sues-snap-over-vi...
- pizza234 6mo agoThere situation is more intricate: the allegations are that Snapchat infringes patents through its use of the AV1 and HEVC codecs. Dolby states that it did not participate in AV1’s development and made no FRAND commitment with respect to AV1, and that its HEVC FRAND obligations apply only to decoding, not encoding.
- CodesInChaos 6mo agoHow would they counter-sue a company that does no business except by licensing its patents?
- adgjlsfhk1 6mo agoAt the very least, you go through all of their patents and try to get them invalidated by the hundreds.