Seriously, this hits all the wrong points before sliding into "don't sell this to a patent troll."

"We, the armchair internet, have come to shout at you, innovative dude, that your ideas are worthless and that your interesting product is just fodder for patent trolls," ignores a few minor things -

• The video codec industry is absolutely crawling with overlapping patents enforced by shell companies whose only purpose is to extract license fees from every screen that ever existed. The USPTO seems to not care.

• This video codec was produced cleanly, and does not appear to overlap with any of the existing codecs.

I'd say give this smart person some credit.