Companies gang up against JPEG patent

International Business Machines Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and 20
other computer industry rivals sued Forgent Networks Inc. and Motorola
Inc.'s General Instrument Corp. seeking to invalidate a patent for the
JPEG standard of digital-image processing.

Other companies that sued include Agfa Corp., Dell Inc., Gateway Inc.,
Matsu****a Electric Corp. of America, palmOne Inc., Ricoh Corp., Apple
Computer Inc., Canon USA Inc., EastmanKodak Corp., Fujitsu Computer
Products of America Inc., Toshiba America and Xerox Corp.

Forgent spokesman Michael Noonan and Motorola spokeswoman Monica
Randall didn't immediately return calls seeking comment on the
lawsuit.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Wilmington, Del., the companies
say Forgent's Compression Labs Inc. and General Instrument are wrongly
trying to enforce their 1987 signal-coding patent when, in fact, it is
unenforceable.

The defendants are "attempting unlawfully to subvert the JPEG standard
and to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in unwarranted profits"
from the computer companies, the companies allege in the suit.

Compressions Labs sued some computer companies in federal court in
Marshall, Texas, this year, alleging infringement of the patent,
according to the Delaware lawsuit. The case is: Agfa Corp. v.
Compression Labs Inc., No. 04CV818, U.S. District Court, Wilmington,
Del.

(Mike Henley) wrote in message . com...
International Business Machines Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and 20
other computer industry rivals sued Forgent Networks Inc. and Motorola
Inc.'s General Instrument Corp. seeking to invalidate a patent for the
JPEG standard of digital-image processing.

Other companies that sued include Agfa Corp., Dell Inc., Gateway Inc.,
Matsu****a Electric Corp. of America, palmOne Inc., Ricoh Corp., Apple
Computer Inc., Canon USA Inc., EastmanKodak Corp., Fujitsu Computer
Products of America Inc., Toshiba America and Xerox Corp.

Forgent spokesman Michael Noonan and Motorola spokeswoman Monica
Randall didn't immediately return calls seeking comment on the
lawsuit.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Wilmington, Del., the companies
say Forgent's Compression Labs Inc. and General Instrument are wrongly
trying to enforce their 1987 signal-coding patent when, in fact, it is
unenforceable.

The defendants are "attempting unlawfully to subvert the JPEG standard
and to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in unwarranted profits"
from the computer companies, the companies allege in the suit.

Compressions Labs sued some computer companies in federal court in
Marshall, Texas, this year, alleging infringement of the patent,
according to the Delaware lawsuit. The case is: Agfa Corp. v.
Compression Labs Inc., No. 04CV818, U.S. District Court, Wilmington,
Del.

Mike, you are such a bloody k00ky troll! Want a job?


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T H E W R I G H T B R O T H E R Z

If this is true (remember this is rpd) then the patent holders have failed
in upholding their original patent (IMHO) This could be construed as giving
tacit support to using JPEG on a very widespread & common basis whish may
never have resulted had the patent holders taken reasonable steps to uphold
the patent.

Basically, it looks like an attempt to cream if off :-) now it is
well-established

Does this make sense?

Artie

"Mike Henley" wrote in message
om...
International Business Machines Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and 20
other computer industry rivals sued Forgent Networks Inc. and Motorola
Inc.'s General Instrument Corp. seeking to invalidate a patent for the
JPEG standard of digital-image processing.

Other companies that sued include Agfa Corp., Dell Inc., Gateway Inc.,
Matsu****a Electric Corp. of America, palmOne Inc., Ricoh Corp., Apple
Computer Inc., Canon USA Inc., EastmanKodak Corp., Fujitsu Computer
Products of America Inc., Toshiba America and Xerox Corp.

Forgent spokesman Michael Noonan and Motorola spokeswoman Monica
Randall didn't immediately return calls seeking comment on the
lawsuit.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Wilmington, Del., the companies
say Forgent's Compression Labs Inc. and General Instrument are wrongly
trying to enforce their 1987 signal-coding patent when, in fact, it is
unenforceable.

The defendants are "attempting unlawfully to subvert the JPEG standard
and to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in unwarranted profits"
from the computer companies, the companies allege in the suit.

Compressions Labs sued some computer companies in federal court in
Marshall, Texas, this year, alleging infringement of the patent,
according to the Delaware lawsuit. The case is: Agfa Corp. v.
Compression Labs Inc., No. 04CV818, U.S. District Court, Wilmington,
Del.

Well I'd have thought such a well-versed reply would have had people queing
up from the big camera companies and software companies to say: Well done
Artie! That's just the defense we need. And here as a token of our
collective appreciation is a large cheque. You won't ever need to work
again :-)

Then I woke up ....

Artie

"Arte Phacting" wrote in message
...
If this is true (remember this is rpd) then the patent holders have failed
in upholding their original patent (IMHO) This could be construed as
giving
tacit support to using JPEG on a very widespread & common basis whish may
never have resulted had the patent holders taken reasonable steps to
uphold
the patent.

Basically, it looks like an attempt to cream if off :-) now it is
well-established

Does this make sense?

Artie

"Mike Henley" wrote in message
om...
International Business Machines Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and 20
other computer industry rivals sued Forgent Networks Inc. and Motorola
Inc.'s General Instrument Corp. seeking to invalidate a patent for the
JPEG standard of digital-image processing.

Other companies that sued include Agfa Corp., Dell Inc., Gateway Inc.,
Matsu****a Electric Corp. of America, palmOne Inc., Ricoh Corp., Apple
Computer Inc., Canon USA Inc., EastmanKodak Corp., Fujitsu Computer
Products of America Inc., Toshiba America and Xerox Corp.

Forgent spokesman Michael Noonan and Motorola spokeswoman Monica
Randall didn't immediately return calls seeking comment on the
lawsuit.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Wilmington, Del., the companies
say Forgent's Compression Labs Inc. and General Instrument are wrongly
trying to enforce their 1987 signal-coding patent when, in fact, it is
unenforceable.

The defendants are "attempting unlawfully to subvert the JPEG standard
and to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in unwarranted profits"
from the computer companies, the companies allege in the suit.

Compressions Labs sued some computer companies in federal court in
Marshall, Texas, this year, alleging infringement of the patent,
according to the Delaware lawsuit. The case is: Agfa Corp. v.
Compression Labs Inc., No. 04CV818, U.S. District Court, Wilmington,
Del.