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- From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- To: iriXx <iriXx@irixx.org>
- Cc: <C-FIT_Community@realmeasures.dyndns.org>, DMCA_discuss <dmca_discuss@lists.microshaft.org>, <free-sklyarov-uk@xenoclast.org>, <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] IT World Feature: Patently ridiculous: What's Europe to do?
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:55:30 +0200 (CEST)
> do you have a URL for information on the jpeg patent?... this could be very
> useful for my book...
See
http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/effects/jpeg/
I was wrong in calling it the "JPEG patent". The temptation is big, but
it's a misnomer. This is a patent on some coding method, and JPEG just
happens to be infringing on it.
Any proposal for a simple name for this patent?
--
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-12789608
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
120,000 signatures against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/
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