Eolas Founder: Browser Victory Shouldn't Alter HTML. eolas founder browser victory shouldnt alter html. To Michael Doyle, the recent victory for his company, Eolas Technologies Inc., against Microsoft Corp. To Michael Doyle, the recent victory for his company, Eolas Technologies Inc., against Microsoft Corp. in a Web browser patent-infringement lawsuit shouldn’t be leading to a re-examination of anything more than Microsoft itself....

Eolas' internet browsing patent annulled. eolas internet browsing patent annulled. Last year an Illinois court ordered Microsoft to pay out $521 million to private firm Eolas Technology for an alleged infringement of technology. Last year an Illinois court ordered Microsoft to pay out $521 million to private firm Eolas Technology for an alleged infringement of technology. Now the US Patent Office has invalidated the claim by Eolas....

Appeals court reverses $520M Eolas ruling. appeals court reverses. An appeals court today threw out a $520.6 million patent infringement judgment against Microsoft Corp. and ordered a new trial in the dispute brought by Eolas Technologies Inc.In the case, Eolas and the University of California accused Microsoft of improperly including technology in the Internet Explorer Web browser that allows interactive content to be embedded in a Web site, a common practi... Eolas sued Microsoft in 1999 ; the university later joined the suit....

Eolas cashes in on Katrina. eolas cashes in on katrina. Eolas, the one-man software outfit which took Microsoft to the cleaners in a patent dispute, has given its new software launch a topical spin. Eolas, the one-man software outfit which took Microsoft to the cleaners in a patent dispute, has given its new software launch a topical spin. In a press release entitled ’Eolas Releases Multimedia Application to Support Hurricane Relief’ we learn that Eolas CEO Michael Doyle is introducing what’s billed as Muze version 1.0 ’Hurricane Relief Edition’....

On Tuesday, the USPTO issued a "Notice of Intent to Issue a Reexam Certificate" to Eolas Technology, the tiny University of California spin-off that received U.S. Patent No. 5,838,906 in 1998....

Microsoft loses Eolas Supreme Court appeal. microsoft eolas. Microsoft has lost the latest round in its battle with the patents company Eolas. Microsoft has lost the latest round in its battle with the patents company Eolas. The long running case concerns a patent by Eolas and the University of California that covers the use of applets in browsers....

Windows ActiveX patch addresses functionality disputed by Eolas. windows activex patch addresses eolas. This aspect of Web page functionality was found to infringe upon a patent held by Eolas, whose founder, Dr. Michael Doyle, was the original patent applicant. In 2003, an Illinois jury awarded Eolas $521 million, or $1.47 for each infringing copy of Windows with ActiveX-endowed IE sold up to the time the suit was filed in 2001, finding Microsoft liable for damages. In 2004, the winds of change seemed to shift in Microsoft’s favor, when the US Patent and Trademark Office invalidated Eolas’ claim to the patent. But that act led the District Court to re-open the inquiry into the legitimacy of the patent itself, which led to the strange, though not unprecedented, result last September of the USPTO upholding the patent whose claim by Eolas it had previously invalidated....

Change of venue for Eolas case could mean 'do-over' for Microsoft. change of venue for eolas case. In Microsoft's ongoing battle with Eolas Technologies - the patent-holding arm of the University of California, whose claim to having patented program functionality invoked through Web pages was upheld - the Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit on Monday granted Microsoft's request for the case to be remanded to a new judge.. In the company’s ongoing battle with Eolas Technologies - the patent-holding arm of the University of California, whose claim to having patented program functionality invoked through Web pages was upheld - the Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit on Monday granted Microsoft’s request for the case to be remanded to a new judge. But wait, said Microsoft - the same Circuit Court that found for Eolas in the first place As a result, even with the Patent Office now upholding a patent it had rejected years earlier, Eolas could find itself back at square one....

Lawyer Constantine Trela told an appeals court in Washington that the Eolas Technologies patent that allowed web browsers to recognise and run embedded applications on web pages had been demonstrated by Pei-Yuan Wei in May 1993, more than five years before the Eolas patent was granted....

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is investigating whether the claims in the patent infringement lawsuit brought by Eolas Technologies Inc. and the University of California could require changes to both the current and future HyperText Markup Language specifications, W3C officials said on Tuesday....