On May 19, 2010, at 21:48 , Sir Gallantmon (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote: > > Google's patent license states that anyone that attempts to sue over VP8 will > automatically lose their patent license. That's a huge deterrent.
only to potential practitioners...not trolls :-( (i.e. non-practicing patent owners) > AFAIR, the VC-1 codec didn't have that kind of clause, which caused the > debacle that led to the VC-1 patent pool... I don't recall, but I would be surprised. This is a pretty common defensive clause. David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
