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mort96 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: JPEG XL and the Pareto Front

If the patent doesn't apply to JXL then that's a different story, then it doesn't matter whether it's valid or not.

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The fact that Google does have a patent which covers JXL is worrying though. So JXL is patent encumbered after all.

lonjil 8 months ago [–]

I misrecalled. While the Google patent is a lot more general than the Microsoft one, it doesn't apply to most uses of ANS.

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