Eolas To Sue Apple, Google, and 21 Others

vinodis and several other readers sent along the news that Eolas is suing 23 companies including Apple and Google for patent infringement. The company won $585M from Microsoft in a drawn-out, 9-year battle that the companies settled in 2007; in the course of it the USPTO upheld the "906" patent several times. Now, Eolas is also in possession of a newly-issued patent that they claim covers the use of any browser plugin with AJAX. Let's see how far this lawsuit gets before the Supreme Court plays its wildcard in the Bilski case, which we have been discussing for a while now.

Comments

Re:Where's the patent?

[rsborg]

Can someone link this this "985 patent"? I can't find it linked in any article on this subject. Why do major media never link to anything?

Uh, looks like they did link it at the end, you just have to RTFA:

US Patent 7,599,985 for a "Distributed hypermedia method and system for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document"

Re:Everybody's thinking it, I'm just saying it

[MrMista_B]

Yeah, 'cept with the i4i case, they actually /did/ have a patient, and Microsoft actually /did/ break the law and steal their code after working with them. They weren't actually patent trolls, though Microsoft did a great job painting them that way.