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[FYI] Eolas' web patent nullified



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Eolas' web patent nullified

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco

Posted: 05/03/2004 at 23:49 GMT

In a very rare, but not unprecedented move, the US Patent Office has 
nullified a contentious technology patent. A spin off from the 
University of California, but described as a "one man operation", 
Eolas last year won $521 million from Microsoft for breach of what 
the former describes as its "web application platform". US Patent 
5,838,906, granted in 1998, protects the execution of remote code 
embedded in hypertext pages. 

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Eolas Technologies has 60 days to appeal. 

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