During last week’s rounds at Metaswitch Forum and IT EXPO West 2012, two software companies said licensing AMR-WB for use in their products was a royal pain. VoiceAge’s patent pool apparently only covers end-user device implementations of the codec, requiring companies to work directly with the different patent holders – all of which have different ideas as to what a company should pay.
One person described the process as “lengthy” and “painful.” Another saiddifferent patent holders had widely varying terms and royalty pricing, with a company hoping to implement AMR-WB in software required to deal with each patent holder separately.
