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> That often involves filing a few more patents 19 years later. Yes, there was prior art, but do you have deep enough pockets to go up against their lawyers to prove that?

At most that means you'd need to use old versions of software. An old publicly available file can't violate a patent issued 5 years later.

For the rest, Sega v. Accolade? And just putting a trademark inside the video wouldn't mean a decoder is using the trademark...




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