Comment by asveikau
20 hours ago
I don't know this stuff super well but I imagine it's not necessarily about the lawyers being right or wrong so much as what they can convince people of. The ideal scenario for the patent troll is they can intimidate you into licensing with them. Another good outcome for them (though more costly) is they can convince some non-expert in court. In either case the big players behind the codec can defend themselves but a small one just picking it up downstream as OSS can't.
I don't doubt for a minute that they are going to attempt to intimidate companies using av1 which are much smaller than the AOM founders.