MC-IF wishes to avoid a repetition of the fragmentation in the patent licensing market of video coding technology
According to BusinessWire, Versatile Video Coding (VVC) became a standard on July 6, 2020, and will be published as an ITU-T Recommendation H.266 by the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector ITU-T. On July 22, 2020, the Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF) issued meeting invitations to the companies owning patents or patent applications, which are potential standard-essential patents (SEPs) for fostering the formation of a single VVC patent pool. According to the release from MC-IF, they wish to avoid a repetition of the fragmentation found today in the patent licensing market for the previous standard—High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). The fragmentation caused by...
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