Does your web site have photos that hotlink to other pages? Pay up!

[thewayne]

A Singapore patent trollfirm has announced that they hold a patent on having a link on a clicked photo that pulls up another page.

This is not a joke, they've already sent out bills. There's no mention yet of this being challenged in court.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/smb/0,3800010798,62041802,00.htm

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/1643258

I think I need to upload my photo galleries, all of them have thumbnail pages that link to larger images.

*sigh*

Comments

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Well,and we run gallery software, so it's possible they'd go after the software co and not sites that are running it, anyway.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

There's no way it'll stand. It is an obvious combination of tags, you might as well try patenting the combination of bold and italic tags.

It will be overturned but it'll have to be challenged first. It'll be ignored until then.