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Re: GIF/LZW Patent expires in europe
« on: May 19, 2004, 03:30:28 PM »
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"Our reader Janne Paalijärvi from Finland noticed something odd about the dates in the recent article about the expiration of the Unisys patent on LZW compression in Europe. I stand corrected: the patent expires June 18 in UK, Germany, France and Italy, and two days later in Japan."
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