The battle over who owns JPEG technology rages on:

http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh69854_2005-04-23_01-10-46_n22290858_newsml

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/050421/085198.html

Since its inception three years ago, Forgent's intellectual property program has generated more than $100 million from licensing the '672 Patent to more than 35 different companies

Forgent started their intellectual property program to license JPEG just three years ago? The JPEG format was around a long time before that.