Posted on 03/03/2005 5:27:12 PM PST by SolidRedState
The appeals court also ruled that the lower court was wrong in dismissing Microsoft's claim that Eolas inventor and former UC researcher Mike Doyle misled the USPTO by withholding information about the Viola browser. The lower court dismissed the claim because of its determination that Viola didn't constitute prior art. The reversal gives Microsoft another route to get the patent ruled unenforceable.
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huh, are u series
You need to read the whole article.
Ok I read the thing - how is this a great win for the whole web community? All I saw was a bunch of laywers fighting over money. May the best laywers win, I assume that will be Microsoft.
Yeah, probably right, but if Eolas ends up winning it could raise real chaos on the web with changes to how anything with embedded content works. Very dicey.
I almost cut my finger tonight mincing garlic.
LOL
Hey, there's a ZOT going on here...
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