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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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