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JPEG Patent Challenged

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the clearer-heads dept.

ChocLinux writes "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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  1. Isn't this like what happened with GIFs? by koweja · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Didn't the enforcement of the GIF patent lead to the development of the (generally better, in my experience) PNG format? If we suddenly can use JPGs freely, then somebody will come out with another, possibly better, format for everyone to use.