Steve Langasek wrote: > > Another example from the multimedia area are the patents on MPEG-2/4/H.264 > > held and actively enforced by the MPEG LA (licensing association) and the > > many packages in Debian that support MPEG-2/4/H.264 (and all of them support > > MP3 as well): > > Do you have any references regarding the enforcement of these patents?
MPEG-LA announced a lawsuit against Sagem in May 2004: http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_04-05-03_sagem.pdf followed by a settlement in March 2005: http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_05-03-23_sagem.pdf Earlier, in November 2000, Compaq was sued: http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_00-11-20_m2.html Arnoud -- Arnoud Engelfriet, Dutch patent attorney - Speaking only for myself Patents, copyright and IPR explained for techies: http://www.iusmentis.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
