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Also Read: The Disruptive Engine Innovation Forgent Networks from Texas wants to collect a royalty every time someone compresses an image using the JPEG algorithm. It urges third parties to negotiate with it separate licensing agreements. It bases its claim on a 17 year old patent it acquired in 1997 when VTel, from which Forgent was spun-off, purchased the San-Jose based Compression Labs.
The patent pertains to a crucial element in the popular compression method. The JPEG committee of ISO the International Standards Organization threatens to withdraw the standard altogether. This would impact thousands of software and hardware products. This is only the latest in a serious of spats.
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