More than half of the H.264 patents have expired

[benwaggoner]

Originally Posted by rwill

Well, lets assume the patents of H.264 have run out. As soon as one extends this H.264 with additional features he leaves the safe path and enters the patent minefield again.

Also, lots of patents have been granted to EVC and AV1 for use with those codecs. The patents weren't released to the public domain, and potentially could be enforced when used outside of the technology free use was given to.

[oibaf]

Originally Posted by hajj_3

patent list was updated on September 3rd, not sure what changes there are: https://www.via-la.com/wp-content/up...ber-3-2024.pdf

These:

-CN 102256122 - Exp. Jun 26, 2023
-HK 1159919 - Exp. Jun 27, 2023
+HK 1159919 (removed as of September 3, 2024)
-MO J/002154 - Exp. Jun 26, 2023
+MO J/002154 (removed as of September 3, 2024)

[kurkosdr]

Originally Posted by oibaf

These:

I never understood, why remove expired patents from a patent pool?

It's not the first time it's happened, Samsung has removed some expired patents from the MPEG-4 Part 2 pool in the past:
http://web.archive.org/web/201907061...s/m4v-att1.pdf