MPEG LA granted Google a license to “techniques that may...
MPEG LA granted Google a license to “techniques that may be essential to VP8 and earlier-generation VPx video compression technologies under patents owned by 11 patent holders,” the company and licensing group said Thursday (http://bit.ly/ZmrZ9F). The agreement grants Google the…
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right to sublicense those techniques to any VP8 user, whether the implementation is by Google or “another entity,” and to sublicense techniques in “one next-generation VPx video codec,” they said. MPEG LA will quit trying to form a patent pool for VP8 as a result, they said.