Message-ID: yam7942.255.3767456@smtp.ukgateway.net
To: tiff@olympiakos.com
Subject: Re: JBIG in TIFF?
From: Mark <mark_k@iname.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 20:59:05 +0000
In-Reply-To: <13966.938699482@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On 30-Sep-99, Tom Lane wrote:
> Unfortunately you assume wrong.  The developer of that free JBIG code
> is outside the US and is blithely ignoring the patent issue.  If you
> use his code in the US then you need to worry about securing the
> appropriate patent licenses.
> 
> JBIG has at least the same patent problems as arithmetic-coded JPEG
> (patents owned by IBM, AT&T, and Mitsubishi, if memory serves) and
> may have some more all its own.

Do you mean to say that there are only *US* patents pertaining to JBIG, and so
there is no patent issue for people who are outside the USA (like me)?


-- Mark


