Re: How can an individual license out a compression method, or codec?

Matt Mahoney ha scritto:
On Apr 24, 2:22 pm, Ben Rudiak-Gould <br276delet...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
m...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
In the world of lossless text compression, there are scads of patents
out there, but I don't know of anyone who has actually collected real
money, other than Unisys on the GIF patent.
Has any individual ever made any money licensing a patented algorithm of any
kind? I can't think of any examples. Phil Katz made money by productizing an
unprotected algorithm. Other software implemented it, but PKWare still
prospered because it was there first and had greater mindshare.

-- Ben

Forgent made $90 million by claiming a patent on JPEG and suing 31
companies, two years before it was to expire. The USPTO later
overturned the patent due to prior art, but meanwhile the companies
had to settle to avoid an injunction. The patent covered the idea of
using a code to represent a run of zeros followed by a nonzero value.

-- Matt Mahoney


Ahahaha! Really ? they made $90 million out of a pseudo-RLE ?
Fantastic...high finance! ;)))


Best,
E.


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