Forgent Networks has filed suit against 31 companies claiming that they own the core of the technology that makes jpeg image files possible.
Forgent Networks, quoted by Yahoo! MacCentral:
"Essentially, [our patent] is the mathematical algorithm that JPEG uses to do the compression of data," Michael Noonan, Forgent Director of Investor Relations, told MacCentral. "So while we can't claim all the steps in JPEG and certainly do not, our technology is an integral part of that process."Posted by jackhodgson at April 23, 2004 02:06 PM