VP8 does not infringe on Nokia patent
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Aug 2013 12:05 UTC
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Today a court in Mannheim, Germany, ruled that VP8 does not infringe a patent owned and asserted by Nokia. This decision is an important and positive step towards the WebM Project's ultimate goal: ensuring the web community has an open, high-quality, freely licensed video codec. Google's intervention in the underlying lawsuit (Nokia v. HTC) was a strong show of support for open standards like VP8.

I guess they'll have to dig out another patent somewhere to try and undermine Android, since Nokia isn't having much luck competing with Android by, you know, actually selling stuff. How the mighty have fallen, huh?

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Lennie
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2007-09-22

http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/08/dutch-appeals-court-sides-with-n...

Judging by the text in the article the VP8 issue isn't from the table yet.

Edited 2013-08-06 12:39 UTC

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Thom_Holwerda Member since:
2005-06-29

Nope, they've got more patents dug up. We'll see how it goes.

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some1 Member since:
2010-10-05

Judging by FM's text, seriously?

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Lennie Member since:
2007-09-22

Well, I meant: there will probably be other cases with Nokia and VP8.

FM or not, I think is probably be correct.

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