MPEG LA says 12 parties have essential WebM patents

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The H Online covers MPEG LA's recent claim that 12 parties own patents related to WebM: "The hopes that the VP8 codec at the heart of Google's open source WebM video standard would remain unchallenged in the patent arena are diminishing after the MPEG LA says 12 parties hold patents that its evaluators consider essential to the codec."