On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Jim Witte wrote:
> Just saw this on Slashdot: "Forgent Networks
> (www.forgentnetworks.com) has announced that it owns the software
> patent on JPEG compression technology
<snip>
> Apparently the GIF patent that Unisys tried (and failed?) with has
> also been used by Compuserve, and is also patented by IBM: "The IBM
> patent application was filed three weeks before that of Unisys, but
> the US patent office apparently failed to recognize that they covered
> the same algorithm. (The IBM patent is more general, but its claim 7
> is said to be exactly LZW.)" (from The GIF Controversy: A Software
> Developer's Perspective at
> http://cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127giflzw.html)
The best way to handle this is to just disregard any software patent that
the US Patent & Trademark Office hands out. I've felt a lot better since
I started doing that :)
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