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Retrial Slated for Microsoft v. Eolas

Posted by Zonk on from the back-on-the-wheel dept.

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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  1. The Viola story by eclectro · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The author Pei Wei tells his story of the Eolas patent here and how prior art was suppressed.

    Maybe if knowingly withholding prior art was a federal crime this would not have happenned.

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