Nokia Defend its patented technologies from Google's VP8 video codec

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Nokia announced that they refused to use royalty-free or FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) terms for their patented technologies which is important to VP8 video codec, IDG news reported.

VP8 is a video compression format owned by Google. Google provided an irrevocable patent promise on its patents for implementing the VP8 and released a specification of the format under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. (Wikipedia)

Nokia filed a list of patents with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on March 21. It listed 64 patents and 22 pending applications. These technologies are related to Google’s VP8 video codec.

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