'Patent troll' Eolas defeated in final court appeal over invalidated patents
Source: Computing
Eolas, the "patent troll" that sought to cash-in on patents it claimed to own over web browser technology, has been defeated in its final appeal in court.
It follows a decade and a half of litigation, culminating in the invalidation of the company's key patents by an eight-person jury in the Eastern District Court of Texas in February 2012. That case involved Google, Amazon, JC Penney and Yahoo.
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Eolas was founded in 1994 by Michael Doyle, a former University of California researcher whose team claimed to have created the first web browser that supported plug-ins, demonstrated at Xerox PARC in November 1993 at the second Bay Area SIGWEB meeting.
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Doyle had argued that the "interactive features" demonstrated in his 1993 web browser meant that any website that used similar features infringed his patents.
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