A live webinar entitled ‘Who leads the VVC patent race?’ provided no objective answers to this clearly rhetorical question, but would we expect anything less from a topic as IP-charged as video codecs? Hosted by New York-based data analytics firm LexisNexis, a graph was presented breaking down VVC patent families regionally—data we had previously not laid eyes on—courtesy of IPlyptics. It shows an overwhelming (yet expected) dominance of VVC patents in North America, across all four categories. Thankfully, the session was not dominated by data. Getting quickly into the discussion, John Mulgrew, Chief IP Officer at Lenovo, voiced strong opinions on the changing goals of licensing standards – throwing shade at patent pools for optimizing for maximum revenue rather than…