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> Instead they make it look like community effort, stay silent about strings attached.

Did they? That would be weird because MPEG standards are almost always subject to patents. MPEG is not a forum for organizing “community efforts.” There is an ISO/ITU declaration process for patents, but I’m not sure whether the standard is at a stage where genomesys was to have made the declaration already.

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Show me where they notified others taking part of their patents or intent to patent. They sought out academics and invited them to take part. Yes I was naive, but I also felt rather mislead.

The GenomSys patents aren't even listed in the ISO patent list yet: https://www.iso.org/iso-standards-and-patents.html

I don't know if this is against ISO rules - it is unclear to me whether they only need to add their patents on grant, rather than submission.

The only reason I discovered these was due to an accidental hit from a Google Scholar alert. I didn't even realise it searched patents when I set that up.

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