Forgent Networks vs. HP, Toshiba, palmOne, etc., etc.

( 2004 ) Starting in 2002, Forgent Networks began offering licenses for a patent that encumbers JPEG.

Prior to September 13, 2007, the company was known as Forgent Networks.

On May 25, 2006 the United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected the broadest part of Forgent Networks claims, stating prior art submitted by the Public Patent Foundation invalidated those claims.

On August 11, 2006 Forgent Networks received notice from the NASDAQ stock market regarding non-compliance with the minimum bid price rule, which can lead to delisting, before coming back into compliance in January 2007.

Forgent Networks has stated it is now shifting its focus to, which relates to a computer controlled video system allowing playback during recording.

After Forgent Networks acquired iEmployee and subsequently changed its name to Asure Software, the website of the combined company no longer listed information related to the two patents-' 672 and ' 746, compared to the old Forgent Networks website.

* Patents: Forgent Networks asserts that it owns and will enforce patent rights on the widely used JPEG image compression standard which is used widely on the World Wide Web.

* Forgent Networks JPEG Related Patent ( see Forgent Networks )