According to a report by TelecomTV, an Australian man has begun enforcing international patents which he believes potentially entitle him to a license fee from every website in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States that publishes a URL-linked image, graphic or banner.

Mr. Ronald Neville Langford of Battery Hill, Queensland successfully filed for patents over the connection of a visual image to an Internet URL between 2001 and 2004.Now, Vuestar, a company located in Singapore, claims to have been hired by Mr. Neville’s company to enforce his existing patents.  Vuestar has recently been sending invoices for $5,000 to website operators demanding “annual license fees”, in order to be able to embed URL links in graphics and images on their websites.   

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