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Re: OT: Is jpeg a true open standard without patents?
de Franklin 05/27/2006 10:35
On 27 May 2006, Dewey Edwards<etcde@NOCRAPnycap.rr.com> wrote:
> Or here - http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060526105754880
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> "NEW YORK -- May 26, 2006 -- In the reexamination proceeding initiated
> late last year by the Public Patent Foundation ("PUBPAT"), the United
> States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected the broadest claims of
> the patent Forgent Networks (Nasdaq: FORG) is asserting against the
> Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) international standard for the
> electronic sharing of photo-quality images. In its Office Action
> released yesterday, the Patent Office found that the prior art
> submitted by PUBPAT completely anticipated the broadest claims of the
> patent, U.S. Patent No. 4,698,672 (the '672 Patent)."
Hot, hot, hot news. Very timely. Well done.