Patent clouds for the Opus codec

The Opus codec is an audio codec thatwas designed from the beginning to avoid existing patents in the field andbe royalty-free for all users. It was standardized by the IETF in 2012 asRFC 6716.Now a company called Vectis ("a premierfull-suite IP licensing and consultancy boutique") is collectingpatents that are claimed to read on Opus as a way of demandingroyalties on its use. "The planned Opus program will focus on hardware devices and will not bedirected towards open-source software, applications, services, orcontent". (Thanks to Paul Wise).