Retrial Slated for Microsoft v. Eolas

wwphx writes "Back to trial they go. Microsoft won a decision stating that evidence of a prior browser, Viola, was excluded from the previous trial." From the article: "It had also suggested that Mike Doyle, Eolas' founder and a former UC researcher, had intentionally concealed his knowledge of Viola when filing the patent claim." Commentary also available from Forbes and ZDNet.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Appeals Court Sends Eolas Case Back For New Trial

Re:Again?

[big-giant-head]

Well yeah, about 90% of the software patents out there should've never been issued, probably including most of M$'s.

If you could patent things the real world the way they do with software, I could probably patent something like:

'A tissue membrane that takes in an Oxygen/Nitogen mix, filters out the 0xygen and disperses it to complex system of small tubes that bond the oxygen into a plasma compund. The oxygen is then develived via this plama conduit.'

And then sue everyone with functioning lungs, red blood cells and blood vessels.

I read the title as

[wideBlueSkies]

Microsoft v. Ebola.

And I thought to myself "whoever wins, we lose".

wbs.