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Eolas wants Microsoft to stop browser distribution
News Eolas, the sole licensee and sublicensor of a browser plug-in patent owned by the University of California, asked the US District Court in Chicago for an injunction against distributing copies of IE capable of running plug-in applications in a way...
[October 9, 2003, 9:00]
Internet Explorer patent-violation appeal dismissed
News The university and its spinoff company, Eolas, share the rights to a patent that they claim covers plug-ins and applets that are invoked through a Web browser. In subsequent attempts to convince Congress to reform federal patent laws, Microsoft has...
[November 1, 2005, 8:40]
Microsoft defeat stirs patent concerns
News Eolas Technologies, a University of California spin-off with one employee, no products, a handful of patents and 100 investors, on Monday prevailed in its $521m (£324m) patent-infringement suit against Microsoft.
[August 14, 2003, 14:55]
Microsoft hit with $521m Explorer fine
News The specific patent from Eolas was not mentioned in the documents, but Microsoft executives had described the necessity for technology that conformed to the outlines of the patent. Eolas claimed that Microsoft's patent infringement allowed the...
[August 12, 2003, 8:45]
Eolas hits back at Microsoft in patent battle
News UC and its one-man software spinoff Eolas on 16 July filed a brief with the US Court of Appeals for the federal circuit to counter Microsoft's request for an appeal in a patent infringement case that has rattled the Web, from site authors to...
[July 20, 2004, 8:35]
Eolas ruling prompts Microsoft action
News In August, a federal court in Chicago ruled that Microsoft must pay $521m (£312m) to Eolas and the University of California after finding that Internet Explorer infringed on a patent related to plug-in technology.
[October 7, 2003, 16:15]
Patent critics search for prior art
News But one W3C participant who testified in the Eolas patent trial on Microsoft's behalf lauded the consortium's filing, given that the judge disallowed testimony about prior art to the jury. The filing, from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), asks...
[November 3, 2003, 11:25]
Patent loss creates pro-Microsoft alliances
News Whatever the scope of his patent, which is co-owned by the University of California at Berkeley, Doyle could theoretically wind up with the power to grant Macromedia, Adobe, Sun and the rest of the plug-in makers a simple alternative, which could...
[September 26, 2003, 10:25]
W3C investigates threat to HTML
News As previously reported, the W3C conceived the patent advisory group to study the threat posed by the Eolas plug-in patent to the Web's core markup language, HTML and related W3C recommendations. The Eolas patent has stirred up the Web since a...
[September 25, 2003, 13:00]
Microsoft strengthens HTML patent with Eolas
News The patent is reinforced, say patent lawyers, because it not only quotes as a reference the Eolas Web plug-in patent which Microsoft has spent the past few years trying to overturn in court, but also the prior art that Microsoft used for its...
[October 11, 2004, 16:55]
Eolas loses another patent battle
News The patent in question, owned by the University of California and licensed exclusively to its Eolas software spinoff, describes the way a Web browser opens third-party applications, or "plug-ins," within the browser.
[August 19, 2004, 8:45]
W3C applauds Microsoft 'reprieve'
News The patent infringement case, brought by the University of California and its Eolas Technologies spinoff, had riled the Web over potential ripple effects that could have forced changes in millions of Web pages that use plug-in applications like...
[March 3, 2005, 7:15]
Microsoft weighs up Explorer changes
News We still feel there's a chance the judge may recognise Microsoft's claim that Eolas involved itself in inequitable conduct, as we believe Eolas had knowledge of.existing Microsoft technology before submitting its patent application," he said.
[September 1, 2003, 8:50]
Microsoft patent appeal heard
News The school and its spin-off company called Eolas share the rights to a patent that they claim covers plug-ins and applets that are invoked through a Web browser. Meanwhile, a separate process is under way at the US Patent and Trademark Office...
[December 10, 2004, 7:35]
Microsoft delays Eolas-prompted changes
News Web software company Eolas Technologies sued Microsoft in 1999, claiming that software that allows Internet Explorer to use plug-ins and other external software infringes on a patent it holds jointly with the University of California.
[January 30, 2004, 8:05]
Appeal underway against Eolas ruling
News The 174-page document, filed on 3 June, attacks a US District Court decision that said Microsoft violated a patent, owned by the University of California and its Eolas spinoff. The August decision originally granted the University of California and...
[June 9, 2004, 9:05]
Eolas case rehearing demanded
News Microsoft has stepped up its defence in the Eolas Technologies patent infringement case, asking for a new hearing on a software export matter it calls crucial to the whole industry. The Eolas golden master case is one of two such patent battles...
[March 23, 2005, 9:05]
Microsoft settles IE patent dispute with Eolas
News While at the University of California at San Francisco, Eolas chief executive Michael Doyle led a team that worked on the technology in the patent, and he spun off Eolas to help commercialise it, according to Eolas.
[August 31, 2007, 9:50]
Patent suit may prompt changes to HTML
News While Microsoft has pledged to appeal the ruling, it has already prepared for a worst-case scenario, as have companies such as Macromedia and Sun Microsystems whose technologies rely heavily on IE's ability to play plug-ins -- the capability found...
[September 22, 2003, 9:50]
Microsoft loses Eolas patent ruling
News Eolas and the university filed their suit against Microsoft in 1999, alleging that the way Microsoft's Internet Explorer uses plug-ins and applets infringes on an early-1990s patent. In a decision made public Wednesday, the patent office upheld the...
[September 30, 2005, 10:10]
