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Please be apprised of the following Legal Notices:

 

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

"Videotex" 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

structure for information transfer. The Netscape code does not infringe

as released; however, modifications which utilize channel objects as

described by Intermind should be considered carefully. The following is

a statement from Intermind: "Intermind's claims fundamentally involve