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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: JPEG Patents
From:       Michael Ritzert <kde () ritzert ! de>
Date:       2002-07-19 7:50:16
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Hi all,

they are indeed serious about it:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fdata%2Fghi-18.07.02-001%2F&lp=de_en&tt=url
 (for native german speakers: 
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ghi-18.07.02-001/ ).

The most important section of this recent article is IMHO (from the \
babelfish  translation)
According to a Forgent spokeswoman both the electronics giant Sony and a 
"well-known American camera manufacturer" already paid amounts of millions. \
 However the last quarter report exhibits an income from 15 million US \
dollar  "intellectual property licensing program". The company began only \
few months  ago with the help of a US law office with the license \
negotiations. The  kanzlei receives nearly half of proceeds. 

So they have all but forgotten about this patent. The old holder may have \
done  so, but since they were taken over, they are making money out of it. \
This  might become a problem sooner rather than later :-(

Michael

 
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