- To: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: RE: [SLUG] resizing scanned correspondence images
- From: "Adelle Hartley" <adelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:40:26 +1100
- Thread-index: AcUICbOMCTaPujEjRcC80M3nGM7cBwABb82g
Hi,
> > Do you suppose the LZW patents are among the 500 patents recently
> > donated to the world by IBM?
>
> Nope. The patents were owned by Unisys and they didn't renew them.
I know the Unisys patents expired, but it is my understanding that IBM also
have related patents which don't expire until 2006. Unlike Unisys, they've
never tried to use them (AFAIK).
Adelle.