• [^] # Re: Pour parler du fond

    Posté par (site web personnel) . En réponse à la dépêche Expiration des brevets du Fraunhofer Institute sur le format MP3. Évalué à 10.

    Le programme de vente de licence a été arrêté justement parce que les brevets ont expirés.

    Le paragraphe de Wikipédia (c'est moi qui met en gras) :

    An exception is the United States, where patents filed prior to 8 June 1995 expire 17 years after the publication date of the patent, but application extensions make it possible for a patent to issue much later than normally expected (see submarine patents). The various MP3-related patents expire on dates ranging from 2007 to 2017 in the United States[70] Patents filed for anything disclosed in ISO CD 11172 a year or more after its publication are questionable. If only the known MP3 patents filed by December 1992 are considered, then MP3 decoding has been patent-free in the US since 22 September 2015 when U.S. Patent 5,812,672 expired which had a PCT filing in October 1992. If the longest-running patent mentioned in the aforementioned references is taken as a measure, then the MP3 technology became patent-free in the United States on 16 April 2017 when U.S. Patent 6,009,399, held by and administered by Technicolor, expired.