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