May 28, 2008

SG Firm Claims Patent on Web Image Clicks

SlashDot said:

Mr Smith recognises that Mr Koh's stand will likely not be a popular one, and his firm is already girding up for a public backlash.

'Website owners are just upset because they never had to pay for it before,' said Mr Smith.

VueStar will begin enforcing its patent claims in Australia and the US 'soon', he said, and the firm is also working on invoices for Internet heavyweights like Google and Microsoft.

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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.