Quotes "patent expert" Florian Müller ... just no.
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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This is so sad, and bad, and tragic :(
These central standards should be a common good. Pay out the patents with a fair price and move them into the public good. I imagine they already made more than enough money through these patents through HEVC.
Didn't read the linked PDFs in the article, but the article itself doesn't mention what patents AV1 would have broken.
but the article itself doesn’t mention what patents AV1 would have broken
The article does mention and links them
Dolby is accusing Snap of infringing upon four of its patents: U.S. Patent No. 10,855,99 “Inter-plane prediction”; U.S. Patent No. 9,924,193 “Picture coding supporting block merging and skip mode”; U.S. Patent No. 9,596,469 “Sample array coding for low-delay”; and U.S. Patent No. 10,404,272 “Entropy encoding and decoding scheme.”