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Subject: [Tiff] Re: JBIG2 patent situation
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Glenn Widener <glennw@swiftview.com> wrote:

> I did a brief googleing of "jbig patent", and the best reference on jbig2 I found was:
> 
> http://www.jpeg.org/jbig/faq.phtml?action=show_answer&question_id=q3f042a7298c94
> 
> Apparently there are only two known patentholders relevant to jbig2, IBM and Mitsubishi, both of which are offering free licensing.  I will be testing this, but if anyone has more reliable info, I'm curious.

We were able to obtain licenses for JBIG2 from various patent holders. It took about 6 months.....

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