Yah , I am reading it on slashdot now ... pathetic isn't it? First , odex now Vuestar , this method of bypassing courts and going straight to consumers/business using whatever patents/copyrights/claims they can get their hand on is really freaking me out.
If they think companies are breaching their patents then go to court for goodness sake. I think this "sco virus" from america is spreading here ... bad times for local IT companies that does IT ... good times for lawyers that specialise in IT... regards billy On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 09:53 +0800, Soh Kam Yung wrote: > Original slashdot posting > (http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/05/27/1643258.shtml) > > Link to ZDNetAsia article > (http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/smb/0,3800010798,62041802,00.htm) > Link to ST article on lawnet > (http://lwb.lawnet.com.sg/legal/lgl/rss/legalnews/57100.html) > Lik to Photobucket image of a Vuestar 'invoice' for use of the > 'patent' > (http://s282.photobucket.com/albums/kk264/vuestar2008/?action=view¤t=vuestar_01.gif) > > ===== > Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites > Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 27, @12:59PM > from the oh-that-makes-sense dept. > > An anonymous reader writes "A Singapore firm, VueStar has threatened > to sue websites that use pictures or graphics to link to another page, > 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 invoices to > Singapore companies since last week asking them to pay up." > ===== _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
