Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:29:27 -0400
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<http://images.slashdot.org/slc.gif> <http://yro.slashdot.org/> Your Rights Online: Two Strikes for Eolas Plug-In Patent <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=155> Patents Posted by simoniker <mailto:simoniker@NOSPAM.slashdot.org> on Wednesday August 18, @10:01PM from the no-bunting-allowed dept. theodp <mailto:theodp@aol.com> writes "The USPTO has handed <http://news.com.com/Two+strikes+for+Eolas/2100-1032_3-5315367.html> Microsoft a second victory in a dispute over a browser plug-in patent that could roil the Web if upheld, rejecting arguments by Eolas and the University of California that technologies cited as prior art by Microsoft and its W3C allies that persuaded the USPTO to open a reexam were irrelevant. Separately, Microsoft is attacking <http://news.com.com/Microsoft+appeals+Eolas+decision/2100-1032_3-5228882.ht ml> Eolas and the UC on a second front, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a $565 million judgment, this time based on prior art that's completely different than that which it urged the USPTO to consider and the W3C to stand behind." ( <http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/08/19/0036217.shtml?tid=155&tid=1> Read More... | 21 <http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/08/19/0036217.shtml?tid=155&tid=1> of 32 <http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/19/0036217&threshold=-1&tid=15 5&tid=1> comments | yro.slashdot.org <http://yro.slashdot.org/> )
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