December 8th, 2011
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MPEG Plus or Patent Pool Lite? MPEG Mulls Royalty-Free Proposals
MPEG announced today it is working on a royalty-free MPEG standard in two tracks, one track based on expired MPEG patents and other royalty free technologies and the other based on a proposal that patent holders grant a royalty-free license to a “constrained baseline profile” of the widely used AVC/h.264 standard. According to the MPEG [...]
Half of MPEG-2 Patents Expire in 2012
The patents on substantial technologies of MPEG-2 will soon expire. More precisely, 50% of the MPEG-2 patent pool (134 US patents, including the 27 original 1996 MPEG-2 IPR Working Group’s patents) will expire by October 16, 2012. The remainder dribble out for several years through various patent life-extension techniques (continuations, divisions, and patent term adjustments). [...]
Royalty-Free MPEG Proposals Announced
MPEG has announced it has received proposals for a royalty-free MPEG standard and has settled on a deliberation process to consider them. The press release is here; the underlying meeting resolution is here. Relevant portions are copied below. A short analysis of the proposals is available at: MPEG Plus or Patent Pool Lite? MPEG Mulls [...]