Google WebM v MPEG-LA v US Department of Justice
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The Register writes 'The US Department of Justice is investigating MPEG-LA – the patent pool organization backed by Apple, Microsoft, and others – over the organization's effort to undermine the royalty-free V8 codec Google introduced last year, according to a report citing people familiar with the matter.'
It seems that the MPEG-LA and it's members want to sue Google over patent infrtingments in it's WebM product and the DOJ wants to launch and antitrust case for doing just that.
Things are never simple in the world of codec patents.
Full story here.