AT&T Threatens Apple for Patent Infringement

[Daveway]

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AT&T is threatening Apple and other companies for patent infringements concerning video compression. MPEG-4 in particular.

So I'm guessing they're after H.264. But wasn't there a conglomerate of companies that built the standard? They aren't mentioned.

 

[iMeowbot]

Reportedly, Nero already paid up, so the AT&T terms must not be all that onerous. This would not seem to be a serious issue.

 

[mdavey]

But wasn't there a conglomerate of companies that built the standard? They aren't mentioned.

Yes there was, but AT&T chose not to join the licensing conglomerate. The conglomerate doesn't guarantee that theirs are the only patent licenses you need to license to implement MPEG4.