Informatika és tudomány

  • sedward
    #4
    JPEG-nél is volt hasonló license díj követelés. Végül a nagy cégek összefogtak és visszaperelték a kalóz céget, aztán 2006-ban a JPEG license lejárt:
    The JPEG committee investigated the patent claims in 2002 and were of the opinion that they were invalidated by prior art.[27] Others also concluded that Forgent did not have a patent that covered JPEG.[28] Nevertheless, between 2002 and 2004 Forgent was able to obtain about US$105 million by licensing their patent to some 30 companies. In April 2004, Forgent sued 31 other companies to enforce further license payments. In July of the same year, a consortium of 21 large computer companies filed a countersuit, with the goal of invalidating the patent.