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| Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites      |
|   from the oh-that-makes-sense dept.                               |
|   posted by timothy on Tuesday May 27, @12:59 (The Internet)       |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/1643258 |
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An anonymous reader writes “A Singapore firm, VueStar has threatened to
sue websites that [0]use pictures or graphics to link to another page,
[1]claiming it owns the patent for a technology used by millions around
the world. The company is also planning to take on giants like Microsoft
and Google. It is a battle that could, at least in theory, upend the
Internet. The firm has been sending out [2]invoices to Singapore
companies since last week asking them to pay up.”

Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/1643258

Links:
0. http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/smb/0,3800010798,62041802,00.htm
1. http://lwb.lawnet.com.sg/legal/lgl/rss/legalnews/57100.html
2. http://s282.photobucket.com/albums/kk264/vuestar2008/?action=view&current=vuestar_01.gif