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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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