[vlc] Re: libdca

[Måns Rullgård]

Rémi Denis-Courmont <courmisch at via.ecp.fr> writes:

> Le Dimanche 13 Février 2005 13:59, Måns Rullgård a écrit :
>> I know of the patent, but its existence doesn't automatically make it
>> valid.
>
> If you're willing to invalidate it, you're welcome. By the way, if you 
> do so within a time frame of 9 months after the patent grant (that is 
> to say before July 2005), it automatically disappear in the whole EU. 
> Later, you'd have to prove it invalid in every country one by one (with 
> possibly contradictory results).

It seems that the usual principle of being innocent until proven
guilty doesn't apply to patents (no surprise).

Would it be possible to avoid the issue by distributing libdca from
some other country?

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru at inprovide.com

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