Comment on The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has ExpiredComments−nikanj1moIt's so weird to look at the patents list for H.264 and see multiple patents granted after the H.264 specification was released. Was the situation similar for MPEG-4?−wmf1moThe patent pool system is really bad. There's no incentive to weed out bad patents.−userbinator1moThose patents may not necessarily be required to encode or decode, if they're just a new way to implement some part of the specification.
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It's so weird to look at the patents list for H.264 and see multiple patents granted after the H.264 specification was released. Was the situation similar for MPEG-4?
The patent pool system is really bad. There's no incentive to weed out bad patents.
Those patents may not necessarily be required to encode or decode, if they're just a new way to implement some part of the specification.