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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."
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