Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Forgent Networks has been trying to throw some weight around over the JPEG patent issue for some time. Seems recently a few UPSTO rulings did not go their way.

While that is good news, it took a few independent organizations to show the prior art light to the USPTO - which itself still seems horribly disfigured. For just a small idea of how bad things are with regard to US patents right now check out the EFF's most wanted.