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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
+"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
+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
+the use of a control structure to automate communications. ...The
+essence of Intermind's top claim is that two devices sender and
+receiver have persistent storage, communicate over a network,
+and exchange a control structure including metadata which describes: 1)
+what information is to be updated, 2) when to update this information,
+and 3) how to transfer the updated information. In addition, at  least
+the receiving device must be able to process the metadata in order to
+perform the update determination and transfer. Any digital
+communications system which incorporates all of these elements will be
+covered by Intermind's patents."  See Intermind.com.
+
+C) Stac, Inc., and its licensing agent Hi/fn, own several patents which
+disclose data compression methods implementing an LZS compression
+algorithm, including U.S. Patent Nos.  4,701,745 and 5,016, 009 ("the
+Stac Patents").  The Netscape Communicator code  does not perform
+compression. If you modify the Netscape source code to perform
+compression, please take notice of the Stac Patents.
+
+D) Netscape Communications Corporation ("Netscape") does not guarantee
+that any source code or executable code available from the mozilla.org
+domain is Year 2000 compliant.