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Eolas wants Microsoft to stop browser distribution
News Eolas Technologies on Monday filed a motion to permanently enjoin Microsoft's distribution of its Internet Explorer browser amid a flurry of court filings by both sides in the pivotal patent infringement case.
[October 9, 2003, 9:00]
Microsoft settles IE patent dispute with Eolas
News Microsoft has settled a long-running and expensive lawsuit with Eolas Technologies, a start-up backed by the University of California, that alleged Internet Explorer infringed a patent. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported the settlement on...
[August 31, 2007, 9:50]
Eolas ruling prompts Microsoft action
News Microsoft is moving ahead with what it calls "modest changes" to Windows and Internet Explorer as a result of the patent suit brought against it by Eolas Technologies. In August, a federal court in Chicago ruled that Microsoft must pay $521m (£312m...
[October 7, 2003, 16:15]
Patent critics search for prior art
News If Web technologists can find the right example, they believe they can help set aside a federal jury's recent finding that Microsoft had violated a patent held by tiny Web developer Eolas Technologies.
[November 3, 2003, 11:25]
US regulators look again at Eolas patent
News After Microsoft made public planned changes to IE that held the potential to break millions of Web sites, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) last month urged the USPTO to re-examine the so-called 906 patent in light of W3C technologies that it...
[November 12, 2003, 8:00]
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]
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]
Eolas loses another patent battle
News In its first opinion, or "office action," the Patent Office in February appeared to side with Microsoft and its allies, mirroring their argument that similar technologies, or "prior art," had been demonstrated before Eolas filed its application in...
[August 19, 2004, 8:45]
Google, Apple, others hit by Eolas patent lawsuit
News Eolas Technologies, a company that went through a years-long patent-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft, has sued a large number of corporate powers for infringement of that same patent and another related patent concerning interactive programs...
[October 7, 2009, 8:26]
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. But the University of California, which with its Eolas spin-off...
[March 23, 2005, 9:05]
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]
IE Eolas workaround turned around
News The ActiveX modifications are designed to shield Microsoft from liability in a high-profile patent dispute with Eolas Technologies and the University of California. Microsoft expects a second trial in the Eolas case to start sometime this year.
[March 30, 2006, 10:15]
Microsoft tweaks IE to duck Eolas liability
News Microsoft has been in a long-running spat with Eolas Technologies and the University of California. In 2003, a jury awarded more than $500m (£300m) in damages to the university and Eolas, but Microsoft appealed the decision.
[December 5, 2005, 9:00]
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 company, called Eolas Technologies, originally filed suit against Microsoft in 1999, alleging that the software giant infringed on its patents when enabling Internet Explorer to use plug-ins and applets in the software.
[August 12, 2003, 8:45]
Internet Explorer patent-violation appeal dismissed
News The court's decision not to hear the case involving Eolas Technologies, announced without comment on Monday, clears the way for proceedings to continue before a federal district judge. If Eolas and its business partner, the University of California...
[November 1, 2005, 8:40]
Microsoft weighs up Explorer changes
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) issued a statement on Thursday indicating that Microsoft is mulling its options after a federal court earlier this month found that plug-ins and applets in Internet Explorer (IE) infringed on patents held by...
[September 1, 2003, 8:50]
Supreme Court to hear case on 'obviousness' of patents
News For example, when a tiny start-up called Eolas Technologies said that Microsoft's Internet Explorer infringed on a patent claimed to cover browser plug-ins and applets, one of the arguments lodged by the software giant and web technologists was...
[November 28, 2006, 10:02]
Patent Impending
News In a recent example, a judge told Microsoft to pay $521m (£324m) to Eolas Technologies, a University of California spinoff with one employee, no products, a handful of patents and 100 investors, after Eolas prevailed in its lawsuit over a browser...
[August 27, 2003, 9:34]
Microsoft sued again for patent infringement
News Other companies who've sued Microsoft for patent infringement include Eolas Technologies, which claimed earlier this year that the Redmond giant infringed upon a plug-in patent. In December 1998, Goldtouch Technologies sued the software giant...
[October 14, 1999, 9:47]
