SINGAPORE--A local company has laid claims to a technology that Web sites across the globe deploy to link images to other Web pages, and sent out notification letters to several companies demanding to be paid licensing fees.

Dubbing itself "pioneers of visual search technology", Vuestar Technologies said it owns the patent to the technology that enables "Internet searching via visual images".

In sum, the company implied that any Web site that uses pictures and graphics to link to another site or Web page will need a license from Vuestar.

In other words, this infringes Vuestar's patent.

But this does not.

1. Vuestar27/05/2008 22:09:20

Dear Mr. Linfoot,

We have reviewed your usage of our visual search patent, and feel that the content that you are linking to is not worth the license fee.

If in the future, you link to worth while content you will be hearing from us again.

Vuestar

2. Stephan H. Wissel28/05/2008 14:44:53
Homepage: http://www.wissel.net

One would question the motives. See my post on this.

3. Volker Weber29/05/2008 08:28:40
Homepage: http://vowe.net/about

I am sending Luca Brasi to discuss this matter with you.

4. Viewer04/06/2008 10:14:03

Is that really from VueStar??

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