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JPEG Patent Insanity (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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