[Vorbis] Sisvel's claim on MP3

[Monty]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 05:02:02PM +0800, JJ Liu wrote:
> Dear all,
>  I just know that Sisvel (http://www.sisvel.com) claims patent on MP3 and
> starting charging fee on MP3 encoding/decoding (http://www.audiompeg.com). I
> take a look on its patent claims and it seems that they are very board.

'broad'

You need to read more than the summaries; the mp3 patents I've
reviewed are geenrally not as broad as they first appear.  Also,
Sisvel would not be alone. Hundreds of companies have patents int he
MPEG pool.

>  I wonder if vorbis would be affected by them.

It would not.  Vorbis is an unrelated format.  It is not derived from
mp3 in any way.

Monty