Parker HigginsThe final remaining patent on the MP3 format — "METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING DIGITAL SIGNALS EMPLOYING BIT ALLOCATION USING COMBINATIONS OF DIFFERENT THRESHOLD MODELS TO ACHIEVE DESIRED BIT RATES" — has expired today.
There's a common list out there (compiled 10 years ago) that has two dates wrong and will doom me to well-meaning nerds issuing corrections in my mentions today. So be it; I live to serve.
Badimir Tootin'@xor I googled to find something to link in a fb post about this and everything I found was that list or was sourced to it oops
@BlueSpaceCanary yeah, it's The List but if you check the priority date of the last two on USPTO or Google they don't match what the list says
@BlueSpaceCanary I think there'd be corrections out there if the patent expirations were, at this point, more than mostly symbolic