In the past, many organizations have claimed ownership of patents related to MP3 decoding or encoding. These claims led to a number of legal threats and actions from a variety of sources. As a result, uncertainty about which patents must be licensed in order to create MP3 products without committing patent infringement in countries that allow software patents was a common feature of the early stages of adoption of the technology. COUNT 4
QSN1 What has many organizations claiming ownership of patents related to aspects of MP3 led to? ANS1 legal threats QSN2 Legal threats and confusion made it difficult to ensure what about patents regarding MP3 products? ANS2 which patents must be licensed QSN3 What was the danger of not correctly patenting products? ANS3 patent infringement QSN4 At what stage of the technology were these problems prevalent? ANS4 early stages