Fight the JPEG Patent
 

Oops, nevermind. Rejected, prior art found.
http://pubpat.org/Chen672Rejected.htm

LOL


Fight the prior art!

I hope the guy who invented smilies never tries to sue everyone.

I pray that IBM never goes after us.

ayway, that was weird

I don't see how he could put a copyrihgt on drawings

i think its a trademark on drawings , and sure you can :) if you made a wal-mart smiley with the wal-mart logo and tried to sell it or use it in conjunction with making money . i think you would have a pretty good chance of being sued, although im not a lawyer and usually when it boils down to it , its always so fuzzy it never makes any "real" sense . lol

he created that smiley long ago, it's the ppl more recently trying to do the trademark thing on emoticons:


http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/...010423_785.htm


Fight the :) !

This thread reminds me of that Superman comics issue where some dude tried to patent the English language. LOL

Anyway, do your part to end the madness--support open source!

AlienQ invented JPEG's

:2 cents:

Damn Brandon you're fast. OR did you just happen to be online at the time the thread was started?