Have the patents for VC-1 expired yet?

NO! ☹️

Most patents already expired, but some are still pending somewhere:

• last patent in Europe, EP 1549064, will expire on 2024-11-08;
• last patent in the US ...TODO... ;
• last patent worldwide ...TODO... .

The patent list managed by Via Licensing Alliance is available at: https://www.via-la.com/licensing-2/vc-1/vc-1-patent-list/

This is about VC-1. For H.264 or AVC see Have the patents for H.264 MPEG-4 AVC expired yet?