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1.4 +Please be apprised of the following Legal Notices:
1.5 +
1.6 +A) The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has
1.7 +ruled that the Netscape Navigator code does not infringe Wang's U.S.
1.8 +Patent No. 4,751,669 ("the '669 Patent") because: 1) HTML is not
1.9 +Videotex as defined by the '669 patent; 2) web servers are not central
1.10 +suppliers; and 3) Navigator does not "connect," as defined by the '669
1.11 +Patent, to web servers on the Internet. Wang may appeal this decision to
1.12 +the Federal Circuit. Wang contended that its Patent disclosing a
1.13 +"Videotex" system, is infringed by the following functionality in the
1.14 +Netscape Navigator code: 1) the animated logo and status line indicators
1.15 +--See Claims 1,8 and 9; 2) the "File Save As" function --See Claims
1.16 +23-27; 3) Bookmarks and Rename Bookmarks in the Properties window --See
1.17 +Claims 20-22; 4) storing HTML, GIF, and JPEG files and adding filename
1.18 +extensions --See Claim 38
1.19 +
1.20 +B) Intermind owns pending U.S. patent applications on communications
1.21 +systems which employ metadata ("channel objects") to define a control
1.22 +structure for information transfer. The Netscape code does not infringe
1.23 +as released; however, modifications which utilize channel objects as
1.24 +described by Intermind should be considered carefully. The following is
1.25 +a statement from Intermind: "Intermind's claims fundamentally involve
1.26 +the use of a control structure to automate communications. ...The
1.27 +essence of Intermind's top claim is that two devices sender and receiver
1.28 +have persistent storage, communicate over a network, and exchange a
1.29 +control structure including metadata which describes: 1) what
1.30 +information is to be updated, 2) when to update this information, and 3)
1.31 +how to transfer the updated information. In addition, at least the
1.32 +receiving device must be able to process the metadata in order to
1.33 +perform the update determination and transfer. Any digital
1.34 +communications system which incorporates all of these elements will be
1.35 +covered by Intermind's patents." See Intermind.com.
1.36 +
1.37 +C) Stac, Inc., and its licensing agent Hi/fn, own several patents which
1.38 +disclose data compression methods implementing an LZS compression
1.39 +algorithm, including U.S. Patent Nos. 4,701,745 and 5,016, 009 ("the
1.40 +Stac Patents"). The Netscape Communicator code does not perform
1.41 +compression. If you modify the Netscape source code to perform
1.42 +compression, please take notice of the Stac Patents.
1.43 +
1.44 +D) Netscape Communications Corporation ("Netscape") does not guarantee
1.45 +that any source code or executable code available from the mozilla.org
1.46 +domain is Year 2000 compliant.
