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Patents harm standards and compatibility by blocking the inclusion of necessary or important functionality.
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Standards and compatibility are essential for software - more so than other fields.  If a word processor or a video player cannot read popular document or video formats, it is simply not a functional word processor or video player.  Reading other formats and protocols, regardless of how innovative, will not suffice to fulfil the role of being a document reader or video player.
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==Standards with patent problems==
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* [[GIF]] used to have patent problems when using LZW compression. These patents are now expired.
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* [[Multimedia Home Platform]]
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* [[HTML5]]
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* [[Jpeg2000]] - the web standard that many worked on but nobody used
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* [[Audio-video patents|mpeg]] (mp3 and mpeg video)
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* [[OOXML]] - a Microsoft document format
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* [[OpenGL 3]]
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* [[TLS-authz]]
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* [[H.264]]
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* [[IPv6]]
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* [[Real Media]] - audio and video formats with patent problems<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#Real_Media_Player</ref>
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* [[ISO 9660 Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol]] - afflicted by the [[Microsoft FAT patents]]<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/German-appeal-court-upholds-Microsoft-FAT-patent-985550.html</ref>
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* [[mp3]]
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* [[GSM]]
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* [[G.729, G.722, and G.723.1]]
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==Related pages on {{SITENAME}}==
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* [[audio-video patents]]
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* [[Interoperability exceptions]] - a legislative idea for a partial victory
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* [[Harm with neither litigation nor threats]]
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* [[Patenting around what will become essential]]
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* [[Patent ambush]] (also discusses submarine patents)
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* [[Inequality between small and large patent holders‎]]
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==External links==
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===General articles===
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* [http://perens.com/Articles/PatentFarming.html The problems of patents in standards], by '''[[Bruce Perens]]'''
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* [http://fsfeurope.org/projects/os/ps.en.html Analysis on balance: Standardisation and Patents], by '''Georg Greve'''
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* [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/osp-gpl.html Microsoft's Open Specification Promise: No Assurance for GPL], by '''[[SFLC]]'''
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* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Patents_in_Standards Patents in Standards], from wikibook "FOSS Open Standards"
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* [http://www.w3.org/2004/10/patents-standards-innovation.html Standards, Patents and the Dynamics of Innovation on the World Wide Web], by [[w3c]]'s '''Daniel Weitzner'''
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* [http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2408 A Jesuit's Guide to Open Standards], about patents and standards, by '''Glyn Moody'''
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* [http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF Definition of "royalty-free" for standards], '''W3C'''
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* [http://www.xiph.org/press/2011/ftc/ Xiph.Org Comments for the Federal Trade Commission Patent Standards Workshop], 14 June 2011, '''Xiph.org''' (audio-video software)
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===Specific standards harmed===
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* [http://www.w3.org/2009/03/widgets-pag-charter The Widgets Updating standard], of [[W3C]] blocked by [[Apple]]'s patent
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* [http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ietf-please-reject-draft-housley-tls-authz-extns IETF: Please reject the "Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authorization Extensions" proposed standard], by [[FSF]]
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* [http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q2/000138.html  Microsoft: "Our software patents preclude interoperability"], 2006 press release by [[FSFE]]
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* [http://www.videolan.org/press/patents.html The VideoLan media player and other software for working with video formats are threatened by software patents]
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* [http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html Does FFmpeg infringe patents? We don't know]
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* [http://pubpat.org/13 The jpeg file format was threatened], article by [[PubPat]]
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==References==
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Revision as of 15:03, 4 August 2011

Patents harm standards and compatibility by blocking the inclusion of necessary or important functionality.

Standards and compatibility are essential for software - more so than other fields. If a word processor or a video player cannot read popular document or video formats, it is simply not a functional word processor or video player. Reading other formats and protocols, regardless of how innovative, will not suffice to fulfil the role of being a document reader or video player.

Standards with patent problems

Related pages on ESP Wiki

External links

General articles

Specific standards harmed

References

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#Real_Media_Player
  2. ↑ http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/German-appeal-court-upholds-Microsoft-FAT-patent-985550.html
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