I notice in the article that the patent becomes invalid in 2004... This looks to me as a pretty desperate attempt from a small software company to get some revenue from a patent they bought in 1997. No litigations against major software companies such as Microsoft, Adobe etc will become settled before 2004, their lawyers are artists when it comes to stalling litigation processes. I wouldn't worry about future support for jpeg. This is an established standard, regardless of if ISO supports it or not. A small, desperate Texas software company with a disputable patent claim (not an uncommon thing in the US with it's highly questionnable patent laws) will not change that.