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Doug G
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USA
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 Posted - 24 April 2004 : 16:07:11
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Yep, I hold the patent on text characters display and plan to sue everyone, including the US Patent Office, retroactively back to ENIAC 
<j/k in case anyone thought differently>
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
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Posted - 24 April 2004 : 16:16:28
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 25 April 2004 : 02:07:11
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| Just saw that this morning. What a joke, eh? They should have been charging people from the start, instead of allowing thier technology to be used so long without as mush as a small fuss. It's too late now for them to start collecting dough, especially from these major players. |
Erick
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HuwR
Forum Admin
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Posted - 25 April 2004 : 04:32:03
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| they have already collected $90,000,000 all the major players have already paid up, and MS will soon follow. |
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D3mon
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United Kingdom
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Jezmeister
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25 April 2004 : 11:50:29
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| probably... if not it wont be long before they do... |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 25 April 2004 : 22:06:11
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| Wasn't PNG developed becuase of Unisys announcing they'd start charging royalties for .gif, the main thing thats really held it up was IE poor support for it, IE6 seems to handle PNG pretty well though. I know the PNG specs were orignally worked on by some guys at Livermore not sure what they intended to do patent wise with it. |
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
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Posted - 25 April 2004 : 22:40:12
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Originally posted by Gremlin
Wasn't PNG developed becuase of Unisys announcing they'd start charging royalties for .gif, the main thing thats really held it up was IE poor support for it, IE6 seems to handle PNG pretty well though. I know the PNG specs were orignally worked on by some guys at Livermore not sure what they intended to do patent wise with it.
That's pretty much the way I heard things too.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/JPG_GIF_PNG.asp |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
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Posted - 26 April 2004 : 03:29:09
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| the only problem with png is that IE still does not support alpha channel transparency which is what png uses |
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Nathan
Help Moderator
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Posted - 30 April 2004 : 04:38:49
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Originally posted by D3mon
this only really seems to leave .PNG as the remaining viable image format - does anybody hold a patent on that?
Even if they wanted to they are too late. At least for a US patent.
You cannot patent an idea in the US if it has been published for one year. |
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