I doubt very much that this company with the patent could afford the legal cost of suing one more than a handful of the users of JPEG. Some large companies like Adobe might just pay them off like they did Compuscurge, but there are literally thousands of pieces of software that, including lots of freeware, that use JPEG technology. It's too deeply in place as a standard, ISO backing or not. I suspect that if this texan company wants to enforce their patent rights, they'll only do so to make a quick buck off some of the industries larger players (Adobe, Corel, Quark, etc...) For us, nothing will change except maybe photoshop will go up a few bucks next release. -Adam