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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: JPEG Patents
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2002-07-19 16:32:23
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On Thursday 18 July 2002 7:17 pm, George Staikos wrote:
|  On Thursday 18 July 2002 11:22, Claudio Bandaloukas wrote:
|  > >   A quick search on uspto.gov showed nothing about this patent. 
|  > > Anyone have a link to it?  Is it too recent?  Or is it just a press
|  > > release with no proof of the patent?
|  >
|  > Use http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm
|  > and go for patent number 4,698,672
|
|    No wonder I couldn't find it.   I was looking 1996-2002. :) Hmmmmmm.

As it was granted in 1986, I guess it will expire in 2006, right?
So they have only 4 years to collect money?

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