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JPEG Patent Insanity[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#4)
by Anonymous User on Fri Apr 23, 2004 at 03:25:38 PM PDT

Speaking of software patent insanity, there is a company going after many big names for not paying them money for using ... JPEG!  Look at -

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4816548/

In the article, they claim some special patent on the use for digital images, but in a quick look at their patent, it sure looked like a description of JPEG compression as was put into the public domain, by others, many years earlier (more info at http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg/index.html).

I have no idea what is supposed to make their patent new and unique.  It all looks like work done by others to me.

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Run length encoding[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#9)
by Anonymous User on Tue May 04, 2004 at 08:18:46 AM PDT

From the quick perusal I gave of these stories they appeared to be trying to claim a patent on various forms of run length encoding.

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jpeg patent insanity[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#11)
by mstrugar on Sun May 09, 2004 at 08:55:28 PM PDT

that seems a little outlandish to me. But what can you do?

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