[Born to Conserve]

The ISO is not making sense. In one sentance they say they are withdrawing the patent, and in the next they are saying the patent is not valid. What's up with that?

Is the patent valid or not. Is the ISO/JPEG scared or confident? (or schitzo)

I, for one, would like to know if the patent applies to the standard, and exactly how.

[altair]

I, for one, would like to know if the patent applies to the standard, and exactly how.

Me too. My reading of the patent doesn't show any conflict with how we are currently using JPEGs. It's a patent for a specific compression algorithm that isn't used by most JPEG-aware software.