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.

Oh NO!!!!

[rgsmith]

Just think of all the Pr0N I'll have to pay royalties on!

Selling feature

[Wrexs0ul]

It'll be a new way for webmasters of the sex trade to make money:

"Our women are 100% patent-free!"

-Matt

My proposition

[SpanishInquisition]

Since every image format known to man seems to be under the control of some kind of patent, I propose that the ONLY supported graphic format for all our web applications should be ASCII art, that way we should avoid all the patent mess, also ASCII art is probably the most widely available format and already has a module for gimp [sunnyspot.org].

In other news...

[Real World Stuff]

Microsoft to enforce ".exe" patent. Bill Gates quoted, "All your program are belong to us."

:)

Since this is the Register, after all.....

[JohnTheFisherman]

Does anyone else have any other links to confirm or (more likely) deny this?
They're kinda like the Weekly World News [weeklyworldnews.com] of technology. You know, the people who brought us BatBoy?

My new patent (Abstract)

[stinkydog]

Coding system for reducing patent redundancy

Abstract
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for processing patents to remove redundant information thereby making the patents more suitable for transfer and storage through a limited-bandwidth medium. The present invention specifically relates to methods and apparatus useful in intellectual property systems. Typically, the system determines differences between the current input patents and the previous input patents using mean-square difference of the patents. These mean-square of the patents are processed and compared with one or more thresholds of redundency for determining one of several modes of operation. After processing in some mode, the sucessfully processed patents are in the form of digital numbers and these digital numbers are coded, using ordered redundancy coding, and stored in the database.

SD

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 [forgent.com].

While that is going on. Forgent will sue Unisys for not paying any royalties on the .JPG image on their webpage [unisys.com] (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.

Re:Wrong approach

[Dante333]

If you want people to care, remind them that most of thier porn collection is probably in jpeg format.

Re:Prior Art For What?

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

I checked to see what types of JPEGs I've got, and they're all of naked women. Will I have to pay royalties?

GNU logo

[Kashif Shaikh]

Stallman, time to change that logo! [gnu.org]