Thursday, November 17, 2005

Slashdot | JPEG Patent Challenged

Slashdot | JPEG Patent Challenged: "The Public Patent Foundation has filed a request at the US Patent Office to revoke Compression Labs' data compression patent, which it is reportedly using to harrass anyone that implements the JPEG format. 'CLI's aggressive assertion of the '672 patent is causing substantial public harm by threatening this international standard on which the public relies,' says Pubpat in its filing.'"

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