Patent Office Agrees To Review Infamous JPEG Patent

Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 03/12/2008 - 06:52

Last month, we noted that there was some effort being made to get the Patent Office to do a re-exam of a patent that attorney Ray Niro had been using to go after any site that had a JPEG image.

While the patent itself had been re-examed before, one claim had been left intact, which Niro has said covers anyone using JPEG compression.

It appears that the efforts to get the USPTO to look into the patent once...

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