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Re:The Weirdness of CRISPR by ajdlinux on Sunday April 02, 2017 @09:06PM (#14019966)
MPEG creates the MPEG codec standards, MPEG LA is a separate organisation that exists to sell patent licences required to actually implement the MPEG standards. They don't particularly need to be affiliated.
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Re:The Weirdness of CRISPR by ckastner on Monday April 03, 2017 @07:33AM (#14022007)
> They don't particularly need to be affiliated.

MPEG LA, however, would like you to believe that, seeing as LA is (or at least, was) an abbreviation of Licensing Authority -- something they clearly aren't.

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Re:The Weirdness of CRISPR by deeth_starr_v on Monday April 03, 2017 @02:44PM (#14025786)
Yep, patent trolls
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