Microsoft and Forgent Networks battling over JPEG patent

[Boyd Ostroff]

The battle over who owns JPEG technology rages on:

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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

[Christopher Lefchik]

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