IPOS Director General's response to Vuestar's "image linking" Patent

If you have not been following the issue, a Singapore registered company, Vuestar, has a patent which has been blogged about in many sites / forums. Activist website - RefuteVueStarPatent.biz reports that "Vuestar owns the patent to the technology that enables “Internet searching via visual images”, and has sent out notification letters to several companies demanding to be paid licensing fees."

IPOS has responded to the issue and here is the response to an email, which was sent via an MP to IPOS.

"3. Whilst the proprietor of a patent can consider using licensing of his patent rights to secure income, this is subject to entering into license agreements with parties who may be interested in using the invention, and is not done arbitrarily. A proprietor usually demands payment from companies on the basis that the companies ought to have entered into licensing agreements with it in the first place."

Hmmm...

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