PUBPAT Makes Progress Against JPEG Patent

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday February 2, 2006 @01:44PM from the fighting-the-good-fight dept.

The Data Compression News Blog writes "The US Patent Office has granted the Public Patent Foundation's request for a reexamination of the patent which Forgent Networks is reportedly using to harass anyone that implements the widely used JPEG format. They have already been challenged by many, but PUBPAT had the first concrete case with 'prior art'. In its Order granting PUBPAT's request, the Patent Office found that PUBPAT raised 'a substantial new question of patentability' regarding every claim of the the '672 Patent."

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Could they be sued? succesfully? by robbak · 2006-02-02 13:53 · Score: 5, Interesting

Question: If a corporation like this recieves licence fees for an invalid patent, What is preventing the licensees suing them for the money that they have extorted?

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