The Tor Browser: LEGAL@7e26c7da4463

     1 Please be apprised of the following Legal Notices:

     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

    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.

    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.

    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.

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