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Please be apprised of the following Legal Notices:
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A) Wang contends that its U.S. Patent No. 4, 751,669 ("the '669
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Patent") disclosing a "video text" system, is infringed by the following
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functionality in the Netscape Navigator code: 1) the animated logo and
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status line indicators --See Claims 1,8 and 9; 2) the "File Save As"
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function --See Claims 23-27; 3) Bookmarks and Rename Bookmarks in the
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Properties window --See Claims 20-22; 4) storing HTML, GIF, and JPEG
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files and adding filename extensions based on mime types (performed in
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Windows OS) --See Claim 38. Netscape believes the '669 Patent is
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invalid and non-infringed. Netscape is vigorously defending against
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Wang's claims.
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B) Intermind owns pending U.S. patent applications on communications
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systems which employ metadata ("channel objects") to define a control
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structure for information transfer. The Netscape code does not infringe
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as released; however, modifications which utilize channel objects as
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described by Intermind should be considered carefully. The following is
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a statement from Intermind: "Intermind's claims fundamentally involve
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the use of a control structure to automate communications. ...The
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essence of Intermind's top claim is that two devices sender and
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receiver have persistent storage, communicate over a network,
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and exchange a control structure including metadata which describes: 1)
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what information is to be updated, 2) when to update this information,
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and 3) how to transfer the updated information. In addition, at least
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the receiving device must be able to process the metadata in order to
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perform the update determination and transfer. Any digital
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communications system which incorporates all of these elements will be
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covered by Intermind's patents." See Intermind.com.
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C) Stac, Inc., and its licensing agent Hi/fn, own several patents which
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disclose data compression methods implementing an LZS compression
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algorithm, including U.S. Patent Nos. 4,701,745 and 5,016, 009 ("the
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Stac Patents"). The Netscape Communicator code does not perform
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compression. If you modify the Netscape source code to perform
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compression, please take notice of the Stac Patents.
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