page_title: Vuestar Technologies
section_title: Response
hierarchical_section_title: Vuestar Technologies / Response
caption_attribution_description: Vuestar Technologies (Singapore) Headquarters, The Adelphi, Singapore. Note&#160;: The Attorney-General's Chambers are just next door!
context_page_description: Vuestar Technologies Pte Ltd is a Singapore-incorporated subsidiary owned by Australian parent Goldspirit Investments Pty Ltd. The owner of both companies, Ronald Neville Langford, applied for a number of patents around the world relating to search techniques using hyperlinked images to other websites or web pages.
  In May 2008, Vuestar sent invoices to owners of several Singaporean websites demanding licensing fees if the websites wished to continue using "visual images" to link to other web pages. A Singapore law firm advised people to carefully analyse the wide claims being made by Vuestar as to the intellectual property covered by their patent.
context_section_description: Owners of Arowana community site Arofanatics.com were sent an invoice for S$5,350, but they have said that they do not intend to pay.
  The actions of Vuestar have been called patent trolling by some. Ronald Langford, the inventor and a major shareholder of Vuestar Technologies, has stated that "there has been no law broken" and that his company is seeking payment for the use of its technology "because the company has been 'damaged financially to the tune of millions of dollars'"
  Eileen Yu, on the ZDNet Asia blog, suggested that Vuestar's patent was the result of a flawed patent-approval system. However, she did also point out that Vuestar's claims might not be true or that they might have misinterpreted their patent. Singapore law firm, Keystone Law, also advised people to carefully analyse Vuestar's wide claims on the intellectual property covered by their patent.
caption: Vuestar's Singapore Headquarters
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