Trackback from ZDNet Asia: S'pore firm claims patent to image search:

Singapore company says it owns patent to technology used by millions of online sites worldwide to link graphics and pictures to other Web pages. ...

Trackback from Alvinology - Vuestar: Imaging linking on the Internet is PATENTED:

Zhun bo?????? Can patent this kind of thing one meh???...

An example of black and white vs the interest of the entire world.
Will Singapore's rigidity and favor after $$$ bring cheers or jeers...

Behold.

there's obviously prior art. just some company that's trying to cash in and make other companies scared.

These "Patent Trolls" are common in the U.S.A. and now starting to test the limits of Singapore patent office....hmm

Let's patent one pixel image hyperlink to an URL or patent the way HTML load data from servers....hmmm or patent mouse over pop-up information?

I bet the big corporations that had receive the "summon" invoices to pay licensing fees are fuming mad right now and may join with other "victims" to counter-sue VueStar to invalidate the patent.

This may cost substantial amount of legal fees but if nobody does anything, this company will collect money "legally" all over the world forcing the internet to be less accessible to the real content providers...basically you and me.

Trackback from The Fire in My Life:

Basically to summarise it all, Vuestar bills its so called 'customers' invoices that are inclusive of GST. But a check on the IRAS website indicates that there is no known company registered with them!

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Trackback from Cannot use image link?:

I may have missed something, but the patent certainly did not include using image links to link to a webpage....

does that mean, '<'a'>' and '<'img'>' or any flash link object must now have to have a licence to use now?

what the "beep" is the company doing all these time. are they living in their own world?
why only enforce your patent now?

Trackback from The New Paper:

In an e-mail interview with The New Paper, Mr Langford claimed he came up with the idea in 2000, before Internet bandwidth allowed for images and other multimedia to be used extensively....

This patent should be revoked. It's a bullshit patent and the stupidest one I've ever heard of.

- The Legal Janitor

Trackback from Singapore company wants websites to pay for linking images:

If they think they can profit by charging websites for linking images, then they are not only stupid and brainless but they are so very, very, very wrong....

Basically... Who is the smartie who allowed this... patent?

Trackback from Almost Infamous:

Patent trolling isn't a new problem. This might be the first time that Singapore has experience it on such a large scale but it's fairly common in the US....

Come to think of it given that a lot of pron sites use image linking so that mean....
Hehehe When they sue someone with it they will experience........
Vuestar just open themselves for suing by anyone who have click on objectionable content/image before.
So glad that there is finally someone for everyone to sue and I estimate the damage will run up to millions also.
Thanks for opening the hornet nest and now we all know who to sue for damage. So please enforce the patent Quick :). Using license to shield them self won't work either.
PS This include the guys who get fired seeing pron during work can you even imagine the magnitudes of the lawsuits.Delicious.
The water that carry you can also drown you :)

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