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Vuestar Technologies Pte Ltd is a Singapore-incorporated subsidiary owned by Australian parent Goldspirit Investments Pty Ltd. The owner of both companies, Ronald Neville Langford,[1] applied for a number of patents around the world relating to search techniques using hyperlinked images to other websites or web pages.[2]
In May 2008, Vuestar sent invoices to owners of several Singaporean websites demanding licensing fees if the websites wished to continue using “visual images” to link to other web pages.[3][4][5] A Singapore law firm advised people to carefully analyse the wide claims being made by Vuestar as to the intellectual property covered by their patent.[4][6]
- ^ TelecomTV – TelecomTV One – News Archived 23 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ All your Interwibble is belong to us, Silvie Barak, The Inquirer, 28 May 2008
- ^ Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites, Slashdot, 27 May 2008
- ^ a b S'pore firm claims patent to image search, Eileen Yu, ZDNet Asia, 27 May 2008
- ^ VueStar.biz Archived 22 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine Frequently Asked Questions: Why do I need a User Licence?
- ^ Keystone Law Alert Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Visual Images Search Patent