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by herniatedeel
2644 days ago
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The inventor of Raptor codes, M. Amin Shokrollahi, sold his company, Digital Fountain, to Qualcomm. Upon the sale to Qualcomm, Qualcomm acquired all of Digital Fountain's IP rights. Qualcomm has asserted that these Raptor code-related patents (an early one of which was filed in 2004) are standards essential, and require to be licensed from Qualcomm.[1][2] The below-linked patent would expire in 2024. However, there are a slew of continuation applications that expire much later than 2024. Update: additionally, there is at least one earlier-dated patent filed in 1999, which expired in February. [3] [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2554/ [2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US7139960 [3] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6307487 |
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