LEGAL@925c144e1f1f (annotated)
LEGAL
Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:13:44 +0100
- author
- Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>
- date
- Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:13:44 +0100
- branch
- TOR_BUG_9701
- changeset 14
- 925c144e1f1f
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Integrate suggestion from review to improve consistency with existing code.
| michael@0 | 1 | Please be apprised of the following Legal Notices: |
| michael@0 | 2 | |
| michael@0 | 3 | A) The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has |
| michael@0 | 4 | ruled that the Netscape Navigator code does not infringe Wang's U.S. |
| michael@0 | 5 | Patent No. 4,751,669 ("the '669 Patent") because: 1) HTML is not |
| michael@0 | 6 | Videotex as defined by the '669 patent; 2) web servers are not central |
| michael@0 | 7 | suppliers; and 3) Navigator does not "connect," as defined by the '669 |
| michael@0 | 8 | Patent, to web servers on the Internet. Wang may appeal this decision to |
| michael@0 | 9 | the Federal Circuit. Wang contended that its Patent disclosing a |
| michael@0 | 10 | "Videotex" system, is infringed by the following functionality in the |
| michael@0 | 11 | Netscape Navigator code: 1) the animated logo and status line indicators |
| michael@0 | 12 | --See Claims 1,8 and 9; 2) the "File Save As" function --See Claims |
| michael@0 | 13 | 23-27; 3) Bookmarks and Rename Bookmarks in the Properties window --See |
| michael@0 | 14 | Claims 20-22; 4) storing HTML, GIF, and JPEG files and adding filename |
| michael@0 | 15 | extensions --See Claim 38 |
| michael@0 | 16 | |
| michael@0 | 17 | B) Intermind owns pending U.S. patent applications on communications |
| michael@0 | 18 | systems which employ metadata ("channel objects") to define a control |
| michael@0 | 19 | structure for information transfer. The Netscape code does not infringe |
| michael@0 | 20 | as released; however, modifications which utilize channel objects as |
| michael@0 | 21 | described by Intermind should be considered carefully. The following is |
| michael@0 | 22 | a statement from Intermind: "Intermind's claims fundamentally involve |
| michael@0 | 23 | the use of a control structure to automate communications. ...The |
| michael@0 | 24 | essence of Intermind's top claim is that two devices sender and receiver |
| michael@0 | 25 | have persistent storage, communicate over a network, and exchange a |
| michael@0 | 26 | control structure including metadata which describes: 1) what |
| michael@0 | 27 | information is to be updated, 2) when to update this information, and 3) |
| michael@0 | 28 | how to transfer the updated information. In addition, at least the |
| michael@0 | 29 | receiving device must be able to process the metadata in order to |
| michael@0 | 30 | perform the update determination and transfer. Any digital |
| michael@0 | 31 | communications system which incorporates all of these elements will be |
| michael@0 | 32 | covered by Intermind's patents." See Intermind.com. |
| michael@0 | 33 | |
| michael@0 | 34 | C) Stac, Inc., and its licensing agent Hi/fn, own several patents which |
| michael@0 | 35 | disclose data compression methods implementing an LZS compression |
| michael@0 | 36 | algorithm, including U.S. Patent Nos. 4,701,745 and 5,016, 009 ("the |
| michael@0 | 37 | Stac Patents"). The Netscape Communicator code does not perform |
| michael@0 | 38 | compression. If you modify the Netscape source code to perform |
| michael@0 | 39 | compression, please take notice of the Stac Patents. |
| michael@0 | 40 | |
| michael@0 | 41 | D) Netscape Communications Corporation ("Netscape") does not guarantee |
| michael@0 | 42 | that any source code or executable code available from the mozilla.org |
| michael@0 | 43 | domain is Year 2000 compliant. |
