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Reminds me of my prior art thread I made about Acacia 1989 Video from AT&T Labs "Pandora" project defeats Acacia patent claims! I spent two solid days digging that up against Acacia. Paul Markham gave me $1,500 of free content for the find back then.

MP4 is different because of Google's reaction creating .WEBM & WEBP imagine Youtube having to pay for streaming MP4's, but mostly because who the patent owners are for MP4, they are not amateurs like Acacia, MPEG LA is a pool of the following patent owners, and they have warned for years that they will enforce beginning 12/15:

MP4 PATENT OWNERS

US Patent URL Owner Filed Granted What it covers for MP4 codec
6134234 Patent US6134243 - Method and apparatus for media data transmission - Google Patents Apple, Inc. Jan/19/1999 Oct/17/2000 Hint track for streaming
6091769 Patent US6091769 - Video decoder having an interfacing function for picture synchronization - Google Patents Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Jun/11/1997 Jul/18/2000
6092120 Patent US6092120 - Method and apparatus for timely delivery of a byte code and serialized ... - Google Patents Oracle America Jun/26/1998 Jul/18/2000 Java
5844867 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5844867 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Sep/09/1996 Dec/01/1998
6707944 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6707944 ETRI May/02/2000 Mar/16/2004 graceful degradation of enhancement layers based on complexity estimate
6556207 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6556207 France Télécom, société anonyme Mar/07/2000 Apr/29/2003 graphic scene animation from animation objects
6549206 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6549206 France Télécom, société anonyme Jun/06/2000 Apr/15/2003 graphic scene animation
6075901 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6075901 France Télécom, société anonyme Dec/04/1998 Jun/13/2000
6204854 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6204854 France Télécom, société anonyme Dec/04/1998 Mar/20/2001 rotation on a unit cube