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Jury Rules That H.264 is Not Patented

Posted by Zonk on from the yay-for-tivos-i-mean-broadcom dept.

Dr Kool, PhD writes "According to Bloomberg, a jury ruled against Qualcomm in their patent lawsuit against Broadcom. Qualcomm had sought $8.3 million in damages for patent infringement stemming from Broadcom's H.264 encoder/decoder chips. From the article: 'The patents, covering a way to compress high-definition video, are unenforceable in part because Qualcomm withheld information from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, jurors in San Diego said today after deliberating less than six hours.' This ruling clears the way for H.264 to become a widely adopted open standard."

2 of 111 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Ruling? by Supercrunch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ask O.J. He'd probably say "my jury RULED!!" ;)

  2. Very very Important question by GoofyBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >No. H.264 is only PART of MPEG 4

    But is its the "I can use it to watch pr0n" part of MPEG 4?

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