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Oracle Fights EpicRealm Patents

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the always-squash-the-little-guy-first dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Oracle is now fighting EpicRealm's web patents after Safelite settled with EpicRealm, then asked Oracle to pay, as per their software license agreement. EpicRealm's patents are vague and 'describe a technique where a web site updates only part of a website instead of having to rebuild the entire page. That may look a lot like DHTML, but apparently it isn't the same.'"

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  1. EU software patents now back from the Pet Sematary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Commission seems to have made its favorite dead cat return from the grave (where Parliament overwhelmingly sent it just months ago) this week:
    See recent links to key articles on Slashdot, as well as the latest attempts to spin the issue uncovered (alleging double jeu - albeit in "Austrian" only, so far).