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Originally posted by gothweb
That says that MPEG was in 1990. Case closed, no?
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Not that simple, unfortunately. Knowing that digitized, compressed media has been around for awhile doesn't help. What matters is knowing and understanding the claims of the patent(s) in question, and finding a document which was published before filing that basically describes the invention or from which the invention could be obviously implemented.
Here's a link to what constitutes "prior art" and where to look for it:
http://web.archive.org/web/200206112...rttutorial.htm
Oh, and a reminder that
specific examples should
not be posted! Send them along to spike at homegrownvideo.com and he'll be certain that they're properly reviewed by the experts.
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