Re: Death to JPEG

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 04:07:23PM -0700, Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
> *raspberry*
> 
> won't happen :)

I wouldn't be so sure. Forgent hasn't been entirely unsuccessful:

  "Forgent has engaged in an aggressive pursuit of royalties related to
  JPEG since first announcing its claim to the patents in July 2002. In
  February 2003, the software maker won a $16m licensing agreement from
  Sony based on the holdings, US Patent No. 4,698,672. The company
  claims it has generated over $90m (£50.9m) in licensing fees related
  to the patent over the last two years. Noonan said that one of the
  companies from which Forgent was created, Vtel, had earlier purchased
  the patent rights, which were granted in 1987."

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39152832,00.htm


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