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Suddenly a JPEG Patent and Licensing Fee

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the where-have-I-heard-this-before. dept.

Michael Long writes "Forgent Networks (www.forgentnetworks.com) has announced that it owns the software patent on JPEG compression technology, and has stated that it is "in contact" with computer, software, camera, and other digital imaging product manufacturers regarding licensing terms. This ambush of the digitial imaging industry will probably stand as the worst public relations nightmare a company can inflict upon itself."

8 of 1,122 comments (clear)

  1. FIRST POST OH YEAH!!111 by mister_sparkle · · Score: -1, Troll

    And this is not a "troll", though it may be "offtopic".

  2. I will now lead our congregation in prayer: by Lord+Omlette · · Score: -1, Troll

    What the fuck?

    Amen.

    --
    [o]_O
  3. Re:Pantent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you werent so eager for FP! maybe you could have slowed down and actually proofread your post. Either that or you are just an idiot.

  4. Forgent Networks lawyers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...after the rest of the IT industry is done with them.

  5. Not everything, sadly by PhysicsGenius · · Score: 1, Troll
    The scientific establishment is going to be hard hit by this development. All our charts and graphs from 1950 onward will have to be converted to some non-patented format of course, but that's hardly the biggest problem. Every data capture device (synchrotrons, telescopes, freaking Hubble even) has JPEG tech hardcoded right into it. The American public is going to get reamed by the cost of converting all the existing images and hardware.

    This will be known as the Day that Science Died.

  6. Re:Fields of use / patent ownership vs creation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are you really that fucking stupid that you need a dictionary to spell algorithm or are you trying to be like one of those SCA fuckwits that spell things wrong because it makes them cultured?

  7. Just so everyone know by dcocos · · Score: -1, Troll

    I own the patent of creating patents, and a patent on the process of sueing for patent infringment. I plan on file lawsuits (under my patent of course ;-) for patent patent infringment.

    General Counsel for SpankYourFace.com
    AJ Moechah

  8. Re:Fields of use / patent ownership vs creation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Suck my dick you dirty greasy-haired motherfucking hippie.