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So the h.264 codec was obviously a concept that occurred pretty much simultaneously to a whole bunch of people across the world?

Just because somebody got around to patenting a concept first doesn't mean that many others didn't think of it at the same time.

Correct, however, the party that owns the patent, decides who can and cannot implement that concept in real life.