diff --git a/LEGAL b/LEGAL index 72dff0025c60..f65d6bcb781b 100644 --- a/LEGAL +++ b/LEGAL @@ -1,15 +1,18 @@ Please be apprised of the following Legal Notices: -A) Wang contends that its U.S. Patent No. 4, 751,669 ("the '669 -Patent") disclosing a "video text" system, is infringed by the following -functionality in the Netscape Navigator code: 1) the animated logo and -status line indicators --See Claims 1,8 and 9; 2) the "File Save As" -function --See Claims 23-27; 3) Bookmarks and Rename Bookmarks in the -Properties window --See Claims 20-22; 4) storing HTML, GIF, and JPEG -files and adding filename extensions based on mime types (performed in -Windows OS) --See Claim 38. Netscape believes the '669 Patent is -invalid and non-infringed. Netscape is vigorously defending against -Wang's claims. +A) The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has +ruled that the Netscape Navigator code does not infringe Wang's U.S. +Patent No. 4,751,669 ("the '669 Patent") because: 1) HTML is not +Videotex as defined by the '669 patent; 2) web servers are not central +suppliers; and 3) Navigator does not "connect," as defined by the '669 +Patent, to web servers on the Internet. Wang may appeal this decision to +the Federal Circuit. Wang contended that its Patent disclosing a +"Videotext" system, is infringed by the following functionality in the +Netscape Navigator code: 1) the animated logo and status line indicators +--See Claims 1,8 and 9; 2) the "File Save As" function --See Claims +23-27; 3) Bookmarks and Rename Bookmarks in the Properties window --See +Claims 20-22; 4) storing HTML, GIF, and JPEG files and adding filename +extensions --See Claim 38 B) Intermind owns pending U.S. patent applications on communications systems which employ metadata ("channel objects") to define a control