Just FYI

http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/Gif/Gif.html

It does not expire until next year.  Not sure what the ramifications of
the "variants" and new patent "applications" are.

I wonder if I could file a patent for a method for finding the composite
whole value of two operands and charge 1.5%.

-Andy


On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 09:12, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> Stephan Michels wrote:
> 
> > 2.
> > Gif is the best output format, because most of the browser can handle the
> > transparency of GIF images.
> 
> In the US (and other countries, europe is safe, at least for now), there
> are patent issues with GIF generation. How do you plan to handle these?
> 
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