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Re:Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to paten... by TD-Linux on Sunday August 20, 2017 @03:09PM (#15059786)
Unfortunately, that's not the case, at least as the patent office currently sees things. There's thousands of patents for H.264 and HEVC that amount to "code a certain bitstream symbol with CABAC this certain way".
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Re:Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to paten... by cxseven on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:01PM (#15087300)
If that's the case, that's a terrible perversion of the intended purpose of patents. The progress of science and the useful arts would probably be better served by putting the entire patent system on hiatus for a few decades.
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