Is Cisco part of the MPEG-LA group that signed a deal with Google on the VP8 codec?

The MPEG-LA list of AVC/H.264 Licensors includes Cisco Systems Canada Co. and Cisco Technology, Inc., but does not include Nokia, the company making all the fuss.

According to this article, we don't know who the 11 companies who entered into the patent deal with Google are. Ironically, the author notes that:

The list of 11 companies is currently not public, and it's not certain at this stage why MPEG LA initially said that 12 companies had relevant patents but only 11 are involved in the agreement.

This is good, albeit belated, news for VP8. It means that the codec's patent situation is at least as clear as that of H.264. In theory, some patent holder could still emerge from the woodwork and start suing, but neither agreements nor patent pools can preclude that option.

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