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Originally Posted by PatchWorKs
According to this BusinessWeek page MPEG-LA was founded in 1996.
The Duck Corporation (the previous On2 name) in 1990...
I believe Google lawyers knows their chickens.
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You may be right, On2 may in fact have some patents. And I absolutely agree that software patents are evil to begin with.
That said, MPEG-LA may date from 1996, but remember, it is only a patent
pool. The individual companies in the pool likely have patents going back much, much earlier than 1996. We are talking about all the heavy hitters here, after all.
According to
MPEG-LA, the list of patents in the H.264/AVC patent pool is 56 pages long! MPEG-2's is merely 37 pages long.
Needless to say, it's likely to be a big mess.