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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: JPEG Patents
From:       Randy Pearson <blueboy () bamafolks ! com>
Date:       2002-07-20 15:58:45
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Here's an interesting article from ComputerWorld on this:

http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/multimedia/story/0,10801,72876,00.html

In the article they report Tom Lane from the JPEG Group saying:

"The patent describes an encoding method that is clearly not like what JPEG 
does. The patent describes a three-way symbol classification; the closest 
analog in JPEG is a two-way classification. If the jury can count higher than 
two, the case will fail." 

Randy

On Fri July 19 2002 02:50 am, Michael Ritzert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> they are indeed serious about it:
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnew
>sticker%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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