Microsoft hit by JPEG patent suit
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Forgent Networks, the company that owns the patent on JPEG, has broadened the scope of its licensing push, and it has the world's biggest software vendor in its sights.
On Friday, Forgent said it sued Microsoft for patent infringement in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
The company said it filed the suit after Microsoft went to court on April 15 to ask for a declaratory judgment that it didn't infringe the Forgent patent -- and that the patent was invalid and unenforceable anyway. Microsoft declined a request for comment.