Comments on: Possible blow against Forgent’s rampage?

By: Forgent licenses JPEG patent to BenQ America

Forgent licenses JPEG patent to BenQ America — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:07:33 +0000

[...] This is the third such deal announced after PUBPAT announced that USPTO had confirmed that it will reexamine the patent’s validity. Other deals were with Orion Electric and Riverdeep. [...]

By: Patent Threat to MPEG-4

Patent Threat to MPEG-4 — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:30:29 +0000

[...] And as we have already seen in Forgent’s JPEG case, it is not just the high profile companies who should shiver, as soon as the lawyers are done getting the big bucks from big players, they will come for smaller players too. Even after the USPTO’s reexamination annoucment, they have licensed it to two more companies. [...]

By: c10n.info

c10n.info — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:23:58 +0000

[...] Days after the USPTO’s patent reexamination request, Forgent announced that it has concluded a Patent License Agreement with Orion Electric Co., Ltd. covering Forgent’s data compression technology embodied in U.S. Patent No. 4,698,672 (the ‘672 Patent). [...]