ISO Could Withdraw JPEG Standard

McSpew writes "According to The Register, the ISO is prepared to withdraw JPEG as a standard if Forgent Networks continues to assert its patent claims over JPEG's compression algorithm." I'm sure the JPEG committee would still be happy to hear of prior art.

Comments

This will be settled in the courts ;)

[Mr Slushy]

Unisys will sue Forgent for not paying any royalties on the software used to generate the 42 gif images on their webpage.

While that is going on. Forgent will sue Unisys for not paying any royalties on the .JPG image on their webpage (http://www.unisys.com/corporate/images/home/home/ content/main_photo_homepage.jpg)

When the lawyers have taken all of their money, both of them will declare bankruptcy and go out of business.