Eolas

Eolas is a U.S. company, which became known for patent litigation celebrity.

History

Eolas was founded in 1994 by Michael David Doyle. The name stands in his own words for " Embedded Objects Linked Across Systems " and also for the Gaelic word for "knowledge". Doyle's team at the University of California (San Francisco) programmed the first browser that supported plugins. In November 1993, she performed this function before the first time. This claim is disputed by Pei- Yuan Wei, developer of the browser viola. He receives backing from Tim Berners -Lee and other involved major role in the development of the Web sizes.

In the dispute was all about the validity, but also to exploit the patent in Internet Explorer. In March 2004, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO ) Eolas ' patent had initially canceled, but declared it the end of September 2005, after but a further examination as valid. Thus was the verdict in August 2003 Judgment, Microsoft had 521 million U.S. dollars - the total has since increased to 565 million U.S. dollars - to pay back legally. Since Microsoft's argument, appropriate techniques were known even before registration of the patent ( " Prior Art " ), not worked, can now handle a solution found already in October 2003: Setting up Internet Explorer and techniques contained change to royalty payments to Eolas to deal, which ultimately succeeded and was acknowledged by Eolas ' as a " disgrace."

However, the reaction did not follow in the forthcoming restrictive manner. The originally scheduled for April 11, 2006 optional IE update, which should give web developers the ability adequately to potential incompatibilities to respond, and should bring on the other side the end user to " rebuild " his browser, was not within 60 days to a critical security update.

In August 2007, a comparison between Eolas and Microsoft has been known to unpublished conditions.

Eolas is the owner of patents for processes in which can be connected with hyperlinks moving picture elements in videos.

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