Re: [VPIM] GSM 6.10 is public domain; audio/wav needs registered

"James P. Salsman" wrote:
> Philips owns the rights to a related but different form of LPC, 
> from U.S. patent 5,943,646, which was applied for more than four 
> years after the publication of GSM 06.10 by ETSI.  That patent is 
> most likely what is confusing people about the status.
The patent I've seen investigated in connection with GSM 06.10
and Philips is the older 4,932,061 (1990), not 5,943,646.
4,932,061 does precede publication of GSM by two years.

Jutta Degener
<jutta(_at_)mediagate(_dot_)com>