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| DATE | 2005-10-02 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Software Patents - busy weekend ;)
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Patent office backs Eolas against Microsoft
Web bowser bites Vole
By INQUIRER staff: Friday 30 September 2005, 10:58
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THE US PATENT office said that a patent that Microsoft was held to have
infringed does indeed belong to Eolas.
The patent office vetted the web browsing intellectual property
application twice.
Eolas Technology is a spun off unit of the University of California and
two years back Microsoft was stung for half a billion for infringing its
patent.
But earlier this year, an appea;s court partly overruled that decision.
Florian Muller, who campaigned successfully against software patent
directives in Europe, told the INQ: "Pro-patent politicians told us that
broad and trivial patents can be invalidated. If even Microsoft with all
of its resources doesn't always succeed in that, what can smaller
companies do?"
Muller claimed Microsoft supported practically every lobbying
organisation supporting the software patents directive in Europe,
including ACT, CompTIA, the "Campaign for Creativity", EICTA and the
Business Software Alliance. ยต
L'INQ
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