MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video Codec

The MPEG Licensing Authority (LA) is trying to form a patent pool around patents that apply to the VP8 video codec, which is part of Google's WebM open web media push. "In order to participate in the creation of, and determine licensing terms for, a joint VP8 patent license, any party that believes it has patents that are essential to the VP8 video codec specification is invited to submit them for a determination of their essentiality by MPEG LA's patent evaluators. At least one essential patent is necessary to participate in the process, and initial submissions should be made by March 18, 2011. Although only issued patents will be included in the license, in order to participate in the license development process, patent applications with claims that their owners believe are essential to the specification and likely to issue in a patent also may be submitted."

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