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		mbrubeck on May 19, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VP8, WebM, and HTML5 video No, apparently he does mean MP3, but don't ask me how a patent filed in 1997 covers a standard that was finalized in 1991. (Was there a delay between date of invention and date of application, maybe involving provisional patents? I do not know the details of these things.) http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/

pbiggar on June 9, 2010 [–]

There is generally a delay between patents being filed and issues. I've heard of a number of very long waits before.

(I'm not an expert at all.)

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