Re: Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Forgent Networks said Friday it sued 31 major hardware and software vendors, including Dell and Apple Computers, for allegedly infringing on its claim to an algorithm used in the popular JPEG picture file format.

Re: Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-28 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Måns Rullgård said on Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:38:05PM +0200,: I asked a couple of days ago, but nobody replied. Does anyone know anything about the patent status of JPEG-2000? Is it safe to use it? According to a post at groklaw, jpeg 2000 is not encumbered by this patent. I am not

Re: Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Apr 26, 2004, at 18:41, Florian Weimer wrote: Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is JPEG any different than GIF was I don't remember that anyone was actually sued for using the LZW compression algorithm (certainly not a company rather close to Debian). Maybe the case was so

Re: Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:38:15AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Their patent expires *really* soon, like, a few months away. It's likely that the issue will become moot. One patent in their portfolio expires between 2007 and 2014. Random patents

Re: Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-27 Thread Måns Rullgård
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:38:15AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Their patent expires *really* soon, like, a few months away. It's likely that the issue will become moot. One patent in their portfolio

Re: Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-27 Thread Josh Triplett
Måns Rullgård wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:38:15AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Their patent expires *really* soon, like, a few months away. It's likely that the issue will become moot. One patent in their

Re: Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:30:55AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Forgent Networks said Friday it sued 31 major hardware and software vendors, including Dell and Apple Computers, for allegedly infringing on its claim to

Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Forgent Networks said Friday it sued 31 major hardware and software vendors, including Dell and Apple Computers, for allegedly infringing on its claim to an algorithm used in the popular JPEG picture file format. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,63200,00.html? tw=wn_bizhead_1

Re: Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-26 Thread Måns Rullgård
Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Forgent Networks said Friday it sued 31 major hardware and software vendors, including Dell and Apple Computers, for allegedly infringing on its claim to an algorithm used in the popular JPEG picture file format.

Re: Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-26 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:30:55AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Forgent Networks said Friday it sued 31 major hardware and software vendors, including Dell and Apple Computers, for allegedly infringing on its claim to an algorithm used in the popular JPEG picture file format.

Re: Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-26 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:30:55AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Forgent Networks said Friday it sued 31 major hardware and software vendors, including Dell and Apple Computers, for allegedly infringing on its claim to

Re: Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-26 Thread Florian Weimer
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Their patent expires *really* soon, like, a few months away. It's likely that the issue will become moot. One patent in their portfolio expires between 2007 and 2014. I'm sorry, but you can't just wait until the issue goes away. -- Current mail

Re: Forgent starts litigating JPEG...

2004-04-26 Thread Florian Weimer
Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is JPEG any different than GIF was I don't remember that anyone was actually sued for using the LZW compression algorithm (certainly not a company rather close to Debian). Maybe the case was so clear that every paid royalties. In this case, it