Newest Patent Threat to MPEG-4 365
Sachin Garg writes "After the notorious JPEG patent which has made many big and small names pay
huge amounts to Forgent (total more than $105 million), PCMag reports that
AT&T claims to
have a patent covering core MPEG-4 technology and has warned Apple and
others of Patent Infringement. Pentax and Nero have already paid them."
And I have a patent for ... (Score:5, Funny)
Is AT&T Serious?
Re:And I have a patent for ... (Score:5, Funny)
You'll do better if you go after end-users.
We can always go back to using FLI ! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Is it any wonder innovation is slowing? (Score:3, Funny)
The battles were far bigger and far bloodier over pants in the 1800s than they are now. The innovations you mentioned were *obvious* to many people of the time. It was common that patent applications on a new product would beat a competitor by hours. Lawsuits were rampant, technologies crushed far more often than now.
Particularly read up on the development of the telegraph and electric systems in the US. Those were both especially bloody IP battles, although a lot of industrial developments were too.
Re:Hooray! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Is it any wonder innovation is slowing? (Score:3, Funny)
The battles were far bigger and far bloodier over pants in the 1800s than they are now.
Yes, mock me now. You all know what I meant, though.
Re:Typical (Score:5, Funny)
Hey I remember seeing an implementatio of what would fall under these patents twentry years ago. There were these cool videophon... oh shit.
Notice of Patten infringement (Score:3, Funny)
"A First Post on
I would kindly ask that you remove your post and rewrite it at some later point in this discussion.
Intelligent First Posts, next they actually look at patents before the issuing them... What is the world coming to?
Apologies to Andy Warhol... (Score:2, Funny)