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Hiriart-Urruty posted it as an open question in the field of nonlinear analysis and optimization [Question 11 in SIAM Rev., 49 (2007), pp. 255\u2013273]. From a convex analysis point of view, it is interesting and important to address such a question. The purpose of this paper is to answer this question and to provide a formula for the conjugate of the product of two positive definite quadratic forms. We prove that the computation of the conjugate can be implemented via finding a root of a certain univariate polynomial equation, and we also identify the situations in which the conjugate can be explicitly expressed as a single function without involving any parameter. Some other issues, including the convexity condition for the product function, are also investigated as well. 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