[gjsman-1000]

Grabs popcorn

It will be interesting to see the fallout on this one. Will Qualcomm require licensing for AV1 implementers? How does this prevent AOM from retracting access to patents Qualcomm needs from other companies? Did Qualcomm literally approach every other company with private negotiations? And so on...

[Vt71fcAqt7]

It's basically Qualcomm's legal department trying to keep their patents; they can't actualy do anything to other AV1 implementers now that they have implemented it in Snapdragon 8 gen 2. If they try to sue let's say samsung, they will be sued back (most likely) by the whole AOM who hold way more av1 patents than Qualcomm. Thier patents are just marginaly more valuable now as they aren't shared between all of AOM. Essentially they are screwing everyone else over that contributed.

[videoborat]

Just one more AOM outsider (and major player in the video codec space) publicly stating that their patents in fact do read onto AV1. I wonder what patents AOM tried to sidestep in AV1 design if not the ones from Qualcomm, Dolby, Ericsson, InterDigital, Philips and Toshiba :)

[croes]

Qualcomm already needs a license for implementing a hardware decoder in it's chips.

That license requires making their AV1 patents free of use