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Old 11-12-2003, 09:16 PM  
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Originally posted by mardigras


It reminds me of a few years ago when someone tried to claim a patent on .gif images.

It wasn't a claim, it was an actual patent for the .GIF format.

Unisys had the patent and was going after companies that had software that wrote the GIF format (pronounced like JIF).

The patent expired in July of this year.

Part 2 is a company called Forgent that has the patent claims JPEG....


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