> Wait. WHAT?
> Can you link me to this legal case? I'm only seeing the Microsoft vs Alcatel-Lucent
> case which was over the patents which expire in 2017.
I can't find the reference to that I used previously, but the Wikipedia talk page has a lot of interesting info. They feel all the patents on decoding are over by August of 2015, and the 2017 ones are for encoding. Whoever's writing that is likely not a lawyer though 
A commenter here agrees: the big 2 remaining in the US for decoding are:
* 5,627,938 : Expires: May 6, 2014
* 5,742,735 : Expires: April 21, 2015
It's less clear what the European situation is; given the two big companies with patents are French and German that does matter unfortunately.
Edited by R. Belmont (01/02/13 07:10 PM)
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