Software patents don't exist in most of the world
Software patents don't exist in most of the world
Posted Jan 28, 2010 0:02 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627)In reply to: Software patents don't exist in most of the world by dion
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web
The assumption that H.264 is not patented outside the USA is wrong.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/bz/archives/020400.html
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/bz/archives/020400.html
Maybe all the non-US patents are noneforceable, but that's at best unproven.
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