[M4IF Technotes] RE: [M4IF News] Press Release Licensing Addi tional Visual Profiles

[Rob Koenen]

Hi Manish,
> Does it just means that the licencing process has started ? I am a
> little rusty now how MP4IF charter is linked with the above process.
> Please do let me know your thoughts.

The release explains the steps towards licensing. My short version of
the process: 
* This is the call for patents, 
* which will all be evaluated for essentiality by Kenneth Rubenstein, 
  independent evaluator (essentiality means that patents are necessarily
  infringed by any implementation of the profile in question)
* after that someone (probably MPEGLA) will call a meeting with owners
  of essential IP
* after that they will have meetings and hopefully announce something soon
But you should really read the release itself to understand the details.
It is not unlikely there is a connection between licensing that is about to
start for Simple and Core and the licensing for the new profiles.
What does M4IF have to do with all this? Not much actually, besides some
bootstrapping and information distribution. See 
http://www.m4if.org/patents/index.html
Hope this helps,
Rob
I don't usually do disclaimers, but I must stress that I am not a lawyer,
and that this is my layman's representation of a process in which I am not
actively involved, even though I was involved in crafting M4IF
recommendations
that lead to this process. The release is the ultimate reference.
It will be here http://www.m4if.org/patents/index.html soon.