![]() The onus was on the patent applicant to disclose the internal workings of the invention - allowing the advancement of the state of the art. ![]() By purchasing a serial number-locked codec licence, decoder hardware is enabled at the firmware level.Īs an aside, this resultant anti-pattern is effectively the inverse of what the Patent Office was set up to do - for a nominal registration fee and disclosure a design or invention could be issued with a patent. Therefore hardware implementations of the encoding standard are subject to royalties.Īs discussed elsewhere, this cost is not transmitted to the end users of Raspberry Pis by default. The concept of a new encoding scheme itself is not the subject of the patent, the implementation is. ![]() The various patents for VC1 and MPEG-2 are cleverly written such that hardware implementations of an algorithm are patentable. This thread is a necro so it's getting locked, but not without some explanations first:
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