Reading comprehension issues? I wrote about patents filed by the creators of the codec, not about whether the codec infringes something or not. I.e. free software projects usually don't file such patents, but even they can do it for defensive purposes, and I'm OK with that, if such defensive nature is formalized and can't become offensive in any case.

Surely, I support the abolition of patents on software and algorithms. But projects operate in current reality where they exist (in some countries), so making defensive patent pool is acceptable, even RedHat does that.