Tuesday, July 20, 2004
UC fires back at Microsoft in browser battle | CNET News.com:
"By Paul Festa - Staff Writer, CNET News.com
The University of California hit back at Microsoft in its pitched patent battle over fundamental Web browsing technology.
UC and its one-man software spinoff Eolas on July 16 filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the federal circuit, in Washington, D.C., to counter Microsoft's request for an appeal in a patent infringement case that has rattled the Web, from site authors to browser vendors to standards groups.
Last year, Microsoft got socked with a $521 million judgment after a jury found it guilty of infringing on Eolas's system for running plug-ins, applications like Macromedia's Flash animation software and Adobe's Acrobat document reader that run inside the Web browser..."
"By Paul Festa - Staff Writer, CNET News.com
The University of California hit back at Microsoft in its pitched patent battle over fundamental Web browsing technology.
UC and its one-man software spinoff Eolas on July 16 filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the federal circuit, in Washington, D.C., to counter Microsoft's request for an appeal in a patent infringement case that has rattled the Web, from site authors to browser vendors to standards groups.
Last year, Microsoft got socked with a $521 million judgment after a jury found it guilty of infringing on Eolas's system for running plug-ins, applications like Macromedia's Flash animation software and Adobe's Acrobat document reader that run inside the Web browser..."
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